Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bessboroughs standing on a dais received the curtsies of elite Canadian females as do Their Majesties in Buckingham Palace. In nine other Canadian Provinces subjects similarly kowtow to the local Lieutenant Governor. Only in Ontario does brash, newdealing Premier Mitchell ("Mitch") Hepburn threaten: "Next time we are going to stop aping all this nonsense!" Next time for "Mitch" will come on Feb. 13 when he may or may not dare to have someone other than Lieutenant Governor Colonel the Honorable Herbert A. Bruce open the Provincial Legislature...
...their nerves tingling with thrills, turned gradually away, began to leave the crater. Just then a mild-mannered young man in a Japanese kimono inched imperceptibly toward the edge. Several Japanese ladies screamed as he stripped off his kimono, revealing a handsome torso stark naked. "Police!" cried the ladies. "Stop him!" But clean as an arrow the yellow body sped, disappeared into the curling yellow fumes, spattered upon Death Ledge 600 ft. below...
...became the first man to cross the U. S. in less than 24 hours. In 1931 he became the first to do it in less than twelve. Last week American Airlines invited him to pilot one of its eight-passenger single-motored Vultees on a non-stop coast-to-coast...
...urging that the engineer of the overtaking train be "drastically punished" (i. e. shot), the government newsorgan Izvestia conjectured that he had run past a stop signal to earn a bonus for being on time, added, "During 1934 there have been 63 proven instances of engineers passing closed semaphores on the Moscow-Leningrad line to earn such premiums...
...Mirror began to receive congratulations. First box of cigars came from Lucius Morris Beebe, dandified columnist on the Herald Tribune. Second came from Edward Pierce Mulrooney, onetime New York City Police Commissioner, now chairman of the State Liquor Control Board. A wry telegram from Reporter Forrest Davis read: CONGRATULATIONS STOP GLAD TO SEE YOU ARE AT LAST UP TO YOUR LEVEL...