Word: tion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...until 1930, saw his building completed. As his succes sor the Y. M. C. A. chose "the luckiest man in the War." Lieut. Waldo Huntley Heinrichs. A onetime Y. M. C. A. man in Honolulu and in India, Lieut. Heinrichs went from theological seminary into avia tion. He saw Lieut. Quentin Roosevelt shot down in France, had three escapes from death in mid-air himself. In the Battle of St. Mihiel he fell 3,000 ft., got off with ten wounds. He won a Croix de Guerre with palm, bars and citations. "Luckiest Man" Heinrichs, dapper and kinetic...
Later returns: New York five eights of the districts gives the state to Roosevelt. This announcement caused the N.B.C. expert to concede the total eleccated a winner over Herbert Hoover in tion to the Democrats...
Captain Tarabotto (while lights flickered, grating noises were heard and the Rex slowed down to bare steering way. creeping past Malaga): "The trouble has nothing to do with the main engines. It has to do with one of the turbodynamos which supply current for lighting, ventila- tion and cooking...
...talk than he does about writing plays. His picture is really a "color story" rather than the melodrama which it sometimes attempts to be or the soft satiric comedy which it could have been. The slight romance between Linden and a kind-hearted chorus girl (Joan Blondell); his associa tion with a gay and amazingly unresourceful confidence man (Walter Catlett): the bravado of his return to Willow Creek are incidents which a more astute playwright might have been able to develop without recourse to such familiar props of metropolitan melodrama as a slain chorus girl, a gimlet-eyed detective...
...dangerous potentialities the new fashion of branding as traitors certain public men with whom we have had the privilege of being associated in defense of the state. Should any Irishman come to harm as the result of 'traitor pointing' the consequences may lead to a deplorable condi tion of reprisal and counter-reprisal...