Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Loew's Orpheum: "Outeast Lady"--Constance Bennett is getting a bit tire-some as the good bad lady who plays with fire until her pretty little fingers get burned. This latest film is not any different from other Bennett attempts and it falls somewhat flat...
...tried to stop the petty thefts of cattle, maize, poultry and automobile tires by fining her own native Kitosh servants two shillings pay for every unauthorized trespasser on her farm. Last June she missed some cowbells. That worried her. It seemed to her it might be the first move in a conspiracy between her servants and outsiders to steal her bell-less oxen. She sent her men out straightway, rounded up five Suk natives and had them flogged vigorously with a tire. When the tire broke, she herself brought up a leather razor strop and the last man was flogged...
...late father's Rocky mountain Fuel Co. (TIME, Sept. 7, 1931; Sept. 24); Mary Elizabeth Dillon, who rose from office-girl to president of the 12,000,000 Brooklyn Borough Gas Co.; Eleanor Medill Patterson, fiery editor of Hearst's Washington Herald; May Greer, cashier of Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., reputedly highest salaried woman in the U. S.; Minnie Williams Miller, owner and operator of Thousand Springs stock farms in Idaho; Mrs. Charles B. Knox, president of Knox Gelatine Co., and many others...
...place like Nome for placer mining. Then, when the beach and tundra had been furrowed of its treasure, Nome languished as a commercial city. Today less than 1,500 people live there. Last week Nome was all but wiped off the map by a $1,000,000 tire...
Next day, in a third Monocoupe rushed from the factory at St. Louis, the Lindberghs headed west once more. At Roswell, N. Mex. a cactus punctured a tire as they were taking off, caused another delay. At Phoenix, Ariz. the tire went flat again, forced the Colonel to make a precarious one-wheel landing. Finally at Blythe, a small desert town in California, inadequate landing lights compelled the Lindberghs to remain overnight. They were still 300 mi. from their Pacific Coast goal...