Word: waves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like most of the world, Britain was last week worrying about the next war. On that subject her leading citizens were highly vocal. Pink-cheeked George Bernard Shaw led off with a short-wave radio broadcast on the subject "Whither Britain?" Through yawps of static, the U. S. heard his pleasant Irish voice : "The big question is, for instance, is Britain heading straight for war? That is what you want to know, isn't it? At present Britain is not heading straight for anywhere. She is as likely to drift into war as anybody else, providing somebody else starts...
Scotland Yard was ready to admit that perhaps it was not the world's best police force when in 1932 what Britain called a crime wave brought London 23 murders, 13,800 burglaries. What shocked the new Commissioner, big-framed, bigger-voiced Hugh Montague ("Boom") Trenchard, Baron Trenchard, was the discovery that the Yard's crack men rose in rank not by ability but by seniority. He soon found out that the Vienna police force was not only the world's best but also the most educated. Every Viennese police lieutenant has a law degree. "Boom" Trenchard...
...Saturday morning, amid intense public excitement. She chugged out to sea, sent four wireless messages (the first from aircraft) including one reporting that the kitten had jumped overboard and was rescued by a rope. A shifting wind drove the ship off her northeast course. The equilibrator bounced from wave to wave, threatened to wreck the ship. Early Tuesday morning, after traveling 1,008 mi., the America sighted a steamer which came alongside, took Capt. Wellman, crew & kitten aboard. The America vanished into the skies...
...have bad news for you. The Osoaviakhim balloon met disaster yesterday afternoon between 3:30 and 5 o'clock near the village of Potisky Ostrog [150 mi. southeast of Moscow]. The balloon and gondola crashed and the three aeronauts were killed instantly." A mournful sigh swept like a wave through the hall. Then: "It seems the disaster was complete-not only the pilots but the gondola and its scientific apparatus were utterly lost." Spontaneously the delegates rose, chanted the stirring Soviet hymn to the dead. But outside on the streets jubilant paraders continued proudly to congratulate each other...
...first faint caw, firecrackers were popping in Providence, R. I. Bands were playing. It was July 4, 1878,* a birthday worthy of one who was to be famed as the greatest and most successful flag-waver in the U. S. show business. This week George M. Cohan is to wave a flag in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel to introduce a song called "What a Man!" in honor of President Roosevelt's 52nd birthday. The Manhattan celebration will be one of 5,000 throughout the land to raise funds for the President's Warm Springs Foundation...