Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Very much of a hero seemed tired ex-G-Man Turrou, until the day after his resignation, when the nature of his "opportunity to turn to writing" became known. For a reputed $40,000, Publisher Julius David Stern, ferociously anti-Nazi publisher of the Philadelphia Record and New York Post, had bought from Mr. Turrou, 15 minutes after he resigned, an "authentic" inside story behind U. S. Grand Jury Indictments of 14 German officials! On two excited pages, embellished with a Nazi air bomb plunging down on U. S. warships in the Panama Canal, Publisher Stern shouted...
Publisher Stern spluttered about freedom-of-the-press, but after sleeping on it, agreed to postpone the Turrou articles until after the spy trials...
...crew shot out in front getting away from the stake boats. But that was the only time it was in front. In as pretty a race as has been seen on the Thames in years, both shells moved along as one-the Yale bow stubbornly clinging to the Harvard stern - until beyond the three-mile mark. There Yale made a courageous challenge, moved up almost neck & neck with the smooth-moving Harvard boat. But the spurt was not good enough. The crimson crew, with its short leg & arm stroke taught them by Washington-trained Tom Bolles, made its first spurt...
...Zuyder Zee water burst against the yacht's bow, workmen knocked away the keel blocks, loosed the hawsers, and the Q. E. D. started down the ways. But before more than a few feet of her hull had entered the water, she came to a dead stop. Her stern was stuck in gooey Harlem mud, there to list forlornly until the next high tide floated her up, long past midnight...
...only to the student of the New York melting pot, identify the characters of Having Wonderful Time. In response to the wishes of the Hays office, which also effected a few improving variations on the morals of the personages involved, the heroine's name was changed from Teddy Stern to Teddy Shaw, the hero's from Chick Kessler to Chick Kirkland. Aaronson and Rappaport were Anglicized respectively as Armbruster and Beatty, and even "Itchy" Flexner, the buffoon of the piece, was, according to Author Kober, "forced to change his proud family name to Faulkner...