Word: thuds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although it will be some time before the thud of the pigskin sounds at Soldiers Field, actual spring practice for the football men gets under way this afternoon in Briggs Cage...
...recent snowfall inspired last Sunday night's meeting, a spontaneous affair heralded only by the dull thud of cast off shoes dropping on Winthrop floors. Issuing forth into the quadrangle the nude members were soon in the midst of their rites...
...Lady In Red". There were loud voices, there were louder glances. There were immaculate dress shirts, and there was the Vagabond's. There were laughing faces, and cracking smiles. There were great cascading bouquets, there were wall flowers and pansies. There were tinkling glasses and the dull thud of a bass drum. There were broken hearts, there was the boredom of a thousand. There was a moonlite terrace, there were also chaperons. There were long embrassing conversations; there were short embracing silences. There were those who cut in; there were those who, most unfortunately, did not. There was an evening...
Within two months after the last skyrocket boomed at the 1929 dedication, the whole inflated Foshay superstructure of utility, finance and real estate companies collapsed with a $20,000,000 thud. Last week Wilbur Burton Foshay was in Leavenworth Penitentiary, serving a 15-year sentence for mail fraud. In liquidating the confusion which they soon discovered, receivers tried to sell the 447-ft. Foshay Tower not once, not twice, not thrice but 26 times. Only once was there a bidder for the tallest building in Minneapolis-a jobless man who offered $1 spot cash. Last week on the 27th attempt...
...both hands toward the sky, a moments wait, and then, two objects fell from his steady fingers. The size of one was many times the other, and yet, as they sped past the pillared balconies, the waiting men below observed their speed to be the same, then with resounding thud, they fell simultaneously to the soft grass below, landing as one object. The outspoken comments of the gathering rose to loud clamor at this feat of nature. Should a heavy body fall faster than a light one? The man in the balcony leaning perilously above, waited, then turned and descended...