Word: thawing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...battleship launchings, cherry-blossom time in Japan, baby parades, Mussolini, sporting events and animals that can dance or count. A new type of newsreel called Lotus Sobol's Newsreel Scoops made its appearance last week. It showed what in newssheets would be feature stories- shots of Harry K. Thaw and Evelyn Nesbit as they looked when Harry K. Thaw shot Stanford White and as they look at present; various ladies who have been friends with or married to Rudy Vallee; three Broadway playboys playing cards in a penthouse; the man who makes Mayor James J. Walker's shoes...
Last week's Winter Olympic Games at Lake Placid were handicapped by the fact that winter sports are more fun to practice than to watch, by intermittent snow, rain, thaw. Main competitive features of the games were: i) the surprising defeat of the Norwegians, who won most points in 1924 and 1928, in the skating races and the 18-kilometre lang lauf (ski race); 2) the amazing incompetence of the Japanese, who had come to the Olympics at their own expense to become better acquainted with winter sports. The Japanese fancy skaters, who had studied this sport in books...
...bride had been murdered by a thwarted suitor on her wedding night. The old gentleman, growing testier with the years, finds that his niece is in love with the long-dead murderer's son. He almost breaks up this romance, but the War and his advanced age finally thaw his hatred. Thereupon, by a sort of reverse Peter Ibbetson arrangement, his deceased sweetheart comes down a moonbeam, to" take him away with...
...beady eyes of the Japanese popped with disgust. Astonished Norwegians mopped their faces and unbuttoned their sweaters, too polite to mention the weather. The Swedes, disconsolate, nibbled brown beans, salt herring, oatmeal and knackebrod which they had carried all the way from Stockholm. An unprecedented thaw at Lake Placid, N. Y., had spoiled the ice, melted the snow, made practice for the Olympic Games, which begin Feb. 4, impossible. Undiscouraged by this dismal turn of events, the Olympic Committee announced the full schedule of events...
...lend Senator Fess, to ease the strain on the three building & loan associations sufficiently for the G. 0. P. chairman to withdraw his savings, to put jobless men to work on a new Fess home, and on perhaps 200,000 other homes. The President's purpose was to thaw out the frozen mortgage market on small homes so that people could start new building and thereby contribute to an industrial revival. Three months of conference with bankers, large & small, with real estate men, with building & loan officials, with Government experts preceded the announcement of his newest economic plan...