Word: watchful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Breen is a tall, husky Irishman, good Catholic and father of six. A one-time Associated Pressman, he has for four years been executive assistant in the Will H. Hays office and No. 1 cinema censor. His job has been to supervise the reading of scripts, watch for dirty spots, attempt to eliminate them during conferences with producers. But a producers' jury has existed which as a lenient court of appeals could undo Mr. Breen's best work...
...morning of the races President Roosevelt left the Department of Commerce's inspection boat Sequoia which had brought him from New Haven, boarded the referee's boat, Dodger III, to watch the races. Going up the river, the Dodger III passed the Harvard freshman shell in which Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. was No. 6. The Harvard coxswain gave the order to "let her run" while father and son exchanged a wave...
...ages." The man who the following spring was to become the 14th President of the U. S. was in the crowd of 4,000 that saw Harvard win. Last week 80,000 people, including the 32nd President of the U. S., turned out at New London to watch the 72nd rowing of this oldest intercollegiate event in the land...
...Commencement at Lawrenceville School went Hearst Columnist Arthur Brisbane, to watch his son and his employer's son receive their diplomas. Next day he headed his "Today" column with: "An interesting young graduate is Randolph Apperson Hearst, one of Mr. & Mrs. William Randolph Hearst's five sons. Another, particularly interesting to this writer, is Seward S. Brisbane, who made the class-day speech...
Those in launches or on the train saw Cornell and Washington away first: watched California's scarecrow stroke Dick Burnley, make his first challenge at the mile; noticed the way Navy at the halfway mark held on behind California and Washington. At the railroad bridge, 1 mile from the finish, California began to challenge in earnest; Washington's stroke Ed Argersinger, sent his beat up and began to watch California whittle down his half length lead by inches...