Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ceiling, large drop lights hanging from the ceiling, several show cases filled with bottles of perfume etc. A group of about seven or eight seated in the usual Friday evening position listening to the "March of TIME." How we were all enjoying the program when all of a sudden the program stops the lights go out a rattle is heard, the floor begins to sway, the lights swing from one side to another like the pendulum on a huge clock, glass is breaking, bottles are falling everywhere. We try to reach the door but the floor is swaying so that...
...been monitored from a booth in the wings. But before last week's concert Stokowski announced that they played too vital a part to be kept in the background. His mind would be easier if he had them in front of him, watching his face, perhaps catching the sudden inspirations to which his orchestramen respond...
...fact that the French ministry is hesitating in its decision over a treaty which involves the liquidation of the Versailles restrictions on the Central Powers -- restrictions which left France tremendously powerful -- would tend to show not a sudden burst of altruism, but the effect of outside pressure. In short, Deladier and has advisers are afraid of the tacit coalition between England, Italy, Germany, Austria, and Hungary. That Italy is willing to cooperate with Great Britain seems quite logical, in consideration of the facts that the British fleet controls the Mediterranean, that MacDonald is holding out a tempting offer of colonies...
...legislatures of 20 states were last week considering legalized race betting. Causes of this sudden wave of liberalizing seemed to be several: an extension of the anti-Puritanism that brought about the proposed 21st Amendment; the spread of interest in horse racing due to better management, better horses; the prospect of state revenues from betting. Wherever there is pari-mutuel betting, the state takes a percentage of the total amount wagered. Pari-mutuel betting is legal in Maryland, Kentucky, Illinois. Louisiana, Nevada. Montana, and, since 1931, Florida. This year, bets at Florida's No. 1 track, Hialeah Park, totaled...
After dinner in Daytona, he felt a sudden stab of pain in his abdomen, thought it was indigestion. He took some soda, paced about the hotel corridors with his wife. Later that night a doctor found the Senator's blood pressure was 182, with symptoms of angina pectoris. Advised to stay over and go to bed, Mr. Walsh replied that he had to get on to Washington for the inaugural. Next day he and his wife started north in a drawing room on Atlantic Coast Line's train...