Word: vortexed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Noel's first Big Moment came with his first hit, The Vortex. From then on his career as playwright, actor, song-&-dance man, revue writer went from peak to peak...
...assistance being borrowed or bought, it would be given to Britain. "If one could get an extension of the Monroe Doctrine and a combination of the democracies under the Monroe System with the British Commonwealth sufficiently closely integrated so as to be invulnerable and able to stand outside the vortex of a European war, one would create a centre of stability and peace in the world which might exorcise forever the spectre of another World War!" was the way Lord Lothian put his scheme in one long sentence...
...Into the vortex of the New York Cocoa Exchange one day last week dropped a single bid for 60,000,000 Ib. of cocoa. Placed by Hershey Chocolate Corp. and amounting to nearly $6,000,000, the order brought to a sharp halt a selling swirl which had carried down the price of cocoa nearly 25% within a fortnight and forced the Exchange at one point to suspend trading. The Hershey bid, slightly under the market, was not filled, but coming from the world's largest cocoa buyer the gesture was enough...
...Lockheed Vega with a pilot, two commercial photographers and a script girl aboard, hired to get some shots of the silvery train to be used by C. B. & Q. for publicity. With its engine cut too low for the glide, the little monoplane was suddenly caught in the vortex of air caused by the stream-liner's passage. Out of control, it banked sharply to the right, crashed in a gush of flame. When rescuers arrived, "the bodies were already burned beyond recognition...
When Greece recalled King George II from placid exile in shabby, respectable Brown's Hotel in London last year, it sucked him into a political vortex of danger and unease so critical that his friends were unfairly suspected of having poisoned his chief antagonist, the late General-Dictator George Kondylis (TIME, Feb. 10). Last week King George, normally a sedate and cautious citizen, was driving in nervous haste down an Athens street when a street car suddenly lumbered around a corner directly into his path. Having been tuned by his new life to hair-trigger reflexes, the King swung...