Word: trenched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Jo Mendi, II, most popular chimpanzee in the U. S.; of trench mouth; in Detroit. He was the main attraction in Jo Mendi's Little Chimpanzee Theatre in which, a dozen times a day, he and six younger chimps imitated human beings by riding bicycles, drinking tea, roller skating. NRA cut the number of Jo Mendi's daily performances to two. Last year he earned...
...four long years of War France and Britain tried in vain to break Germany's 435-mile trench stronghold from the Channel to the Swiss border. For four years of Depression the U. S. Government has tried in vain to break the deadlock in the building business, to move the nation's heavy industries once more into open country. Commander Hoover used exhortation. Generalissimo Roosevelt tried a more tangible method of as sault. In May he drew his plans. In June Congress approved them. In July organization began. Last week was launched the great housing drive whose unwritten slogan...
...head and shoulders rise above a trench, the moonshine setting off its black laughing features (Nightly Meeting with a Madman...
...zero hour 150,000 words of controversy were dumped upon the public. Vitriolic bomb shells of recrimination burst in the camps of Johnson and Darrow while Sinclair's trench mortar added to the loud discord. By and large the U. S. took the bombardment without flinching...
...Hoevenberg run is the only place in the U. S. to practice a sport imported from Switzerland for the last Winter Olympic Games. It is a deep trench winding like an ice-lined gutter down the mountainside. Sleds ordinarily reach a maximum speed of about 60 m. p. h., gathering speed by riding high on the banks of its three dangerous turns- Whiteface, Shady Corner, Zig-Zag. The Colgate sled went a little faster than that. When it reached the bottom-still intact despite the missing bolt-its time for four heats was 7:57.31, a new U. S. record...