Word: wave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thousands Cheer, with its sure-fire title, its quick topical lines on which Moss Hart collaborated, its lyrics and music which Berlin wrote alone, varying his mood until it was hard to believe that the same man had written gentle, reminiscent "Easter Parade" and stomping Harlemy "Heat Wave." The box-office success of As Thousands Cheer beats that of Of Thee I Sing, the 1932 Pulitzer Prize-winning show for which George Gershwin wrote the music. It is running far ahead of Jerome Kern's Roberta, although no single show tune is selling so well as "Smoke Gets...
...passage of time the number of strikes which feature the newspaper headlines becomes increasingly numerous, Toledo being the latest storm center, where several thousand workers at the Electric Auto Lite Company have staged a walkout and picketed the factory. The Toledo strike, however, introduces a new note in the wave of protest by organized labor concerning wages, which has been sweeping the country with mounting force since the organization of N.R.A...
...Federal bail had been set at $200,000 which he could not raise himself and which his attorneys could not get reduced. But his three-day imprisonment produced a strange wave of sympathy among Chicagoans whom he never knew. Putting up their property with that of Insull's few friends as security, they induced Fidelity & Casualty Co. to provide the $200,000 bond...
This walloping five weeks' work sent a wave of dismay through Germany and France. Austria had officially become Italy's little brother, safe for a while from German Nazi aggression. France had lost a major engagement to Mussolini, whose power fanned suddenly over all central Europe...
...Office could give its undivided attention to the new Japanese doctrine of a moral protectorate over China. But in Tokyo Foreign Minister Hirota had to keep all three issues in the air at once with one hand conduct the routine business of the Foreign Office with the other and wave the Japanese flag with his teeth...