Word: volleyer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tuesday and Thursday afternoons at 5 o'clock, in the Athletic Building, and on Tuesdays and Fridays at 12 o'clock, at Hemenway, classes are being conducted for the faculty. The program includes conditioning exercises, use of the medicine ball, and volley ball contests...
...with this desperado. The courtroom bristled with armed men. Every spectator, every lawyer was searched before entering. Even the judge had a bodyguard. It was Harvey J. Bailey who had engineered the Memorial Day break from the Kansas State Penitentiary. It was allegedly Harvey J. Bailey who poured a volley of machine gun bullets into four peace officers and their prisoner in front of Kansas City's Union Station last June. It was Harvey J. Bailey who was captured in his sleep, pistols and machine guns by his side, at the Shannon farm shortly after Urschel's release...
...sedan shot into a side road, turned around, sped back over Wolf Road. Coming head-on toward it was the taxi. The sedan driver headed straight for the cab, swerved clear just as the cab's occupants were leveling their machine gun. Brr-rrr-ack ! went a volley. Careening into a wooded lane, the sedan bounced crazily over bumps and ruts, crashed into an elm. The two men leaped out, ran in opposite directions. One peeled off his hat & coat, dropped them. By the time their pursuers reached the spot, both had escaped. Few hours later a farmer explained...
With the tension considerably eased by this unexpected surrender, Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins mounted the witness stand to fire a volley of criticism into other provisions of Steel's code. She had forearmed herself for this attack by going, in a black dress that would not show soot, right into the mills and blast furnaces at Pittsburgh to talk with employes on work & wages. Now before NRA she was an emphatic objector to Steel's limited concessions to Labor. With all the prestige of the New Deal behind her, she pointed out that the proposed 40-hour...
...jarring, self-conscious note into Ellington's performances. Ellington and his players cling to the Negro dialect. Hot obligates are still "riffs" to them. Dapper Sonny Greer, probably the world's greatest drummer, still shouts "Send me, man!" when he is about to launch a percussive volley. Ellington's own soft-spoken orders are a far cry from those used by white bandmasters. At rehearsals, where the routine request would be for a presto or an allegro con spirito, Ellington says. "Get off, now- Sock it!" Where symphonic conductors would call for a solemn andante...