Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wanted. Speed Kid Williams built a hangar on an old sugar canefield on his estate and Jimmy Wedell went to work. Before he was through Mr. Williams dropped a half million dollars, but he had his money's worth last year when Wedell-Williams speedsters hung up a string of records, including a transcontinental record of 10 hr. 19 min. in the Bendix Trophy (Los Angeles-New-York). Last week three sleek Wedell-Williams ships were pitted against two chunky Gee Bee's at the start of the Bendix. (Also there were two women in Lockheeds, Amelia Earhart...
Litvinov. For the Soviet Union, round, cherubic Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinov offered a billion dollars' worth of Russian orders for the World's industrial products-but with the fatal string attached that Russia can buy only on credit, something the World is unwilling to give...
...tall (6 ft. 7 in.) that he uses no podium but even without one he has to bend like a melon rind to get level with his men. When he spreads his arms an entire orchestra seems to fall under the shadow of his wings. For a lush string passage one arm will suddenly take the form of a violin while he plays on it with the other. He stands erect for staccato effects, hunches his head forward and fairly plucks the quick, short notes from out the instruments. He takes his crescendoes with hair and coat tails flying...
...Came the dawn and he was still there, disheveled and wild-eyed, with the yo-yo string still dangling from his trembling fingers. . . . Eventually poor Blennerhassett was taken away. . . . Today he is happy in a quiet place in the country and under sympathetic surveillance he practices...
Three years ago lanky Max Adelbert Baer of Livermore, Calif., starting his career as a professional fisticuffer, killed an opponent named Frankie Campbell with his punches. That for a long time remained his most notable achievement. But a string of eleven victories over competent fighters in the last two years and the fact that Promoter Jack Dempsey thought Baer's Jewish ancestry (on his father's side) might make him popular in New York, qualified him last week as an opponent for Max Schmeling of Germany-intent on earning another chance at the world's heavyweight championship...