Word: waves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doin, hey hey," that the college boys want from the dance orchestra today. Rhythm, rhythm, rhythm, and more rhythm that is the spirit of the musical age. The day of the "Peanut Vender," and "Yes, We Have No Bananas," is over. 'The Big Bad Wolf," "Mine," and "Heat Wave" -- they're the kind of songs people like now. Cab Calloway and Duke Ellington have ushered in a new era of popular music...
...about the interior of Brazil. It differs in being throughout strictly truthful. . . . The hardships and privations which we were called on to endure were of a very minor order, the dangers which we ran were considerably less than those to be encountered on any arterial road during a heat wave. ... It is probably the most veracious travel book ever written; and it is certainly the least instructive." Young Peter Fleming gave up a good job as literary editor of London's weekly Spectator when he saw a notice in the Times's "agony column" about a forthcoming expedition...
After three years of political ups-&-downs, Adolf Hitler at last sat atop the German Totalitarian State, but Hitler lost Man of the Year stature as the result of the wave of international resentment and boycott he fomented by his hysterical anti-Semitic campaign. And Hitlerism had yet to lift Germany from its economic trough. Possibly Italy's Benito Mussolini will be 1934 Man of the Year when his new Corporative State begins to show results...
...lagging behind in the codification march, the President sends 5,000.000 "re-employment agreements" to 5,000,000 employers of whom 3,000,000 sign. The Blue Eagle is born. "A truce on selfishness, a test of patriotism," cried General Johnson. Aug.5-National Labor Board is created to settle the wave of strikes created by the resurgence of organized Labor. Aug. 19-"The most memorable date in NRA history." It is sweltering in Washington. Since early morning, Administrator Johnson has been toiling with three groups...
...deed and using it as the excuse for Chancellor Hitler's suppression of the Communist, Socialist and other German parties; the legend that Nazi firebugs escaped down the underground passage connecting the Reichstag with the official residence of General Göring, leaving Van der Lubbe to wave his burning shirt in the Reichstag and be arrested...