Word: stretches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Realize that "George V is the most unassuming Englishman alive, not a snob, and speaker of probably the only unaccented English in the world. He runs with natural ability a job not of his own choosing, which your Brain Trust would bungle in a day. Stretch every American's brain far enough to grasp that the monarchy is a different thing from the man who is King, and that British royalist sentiment has little to do with the blah-haw-haw which selected Englishmen, usually pabliticians, spill through the cigar smoke at Hands-Across-the-Sea dinners...
...world in Hickory County." Her career: "I have been having such a good time." Other Rand observations: "It shouldn't cost anything to go naked. I like to be as naked as possible. ... I think my dance is the most beautiful thing in the world. ... I could just stretch out and sleep forever...
According to the new system, southbound traffic will be permitted only on the northern stretch of Massachusetts Avenue bounding the subway incline, while northbound traffic will be shifted to Peabody and Cambridge Streets...
...course. Lieut. Charles P. Hollstein was heading east over the Allegheny '"Hell Stretch" with mail from Cleveland to Washington. His radio, which the Army had less than ten days to install for airmail service, faded out. Completely lost, Lieut. Hollstein ran into a soupy fog, made a crash landing on an ice-clad hill outside Uniontown, Pa. His head and face badly gashed, he managed to scramble out of the wrecked ship and summon aid to rescue his mail...
...mystery drama at the Plymouth this week is singularly lacking in all the conventional trappings; no gorillas carrying swooning, half-naked females shamble across the stage; not once does a mysterious hand stretch out from the secret panel and grasp its unsuspecting victim; the lights are never suddenly doused and there are no trap doors, hidden staircases, or ghostly signals...