Word: waving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Propaganda floods in to Bogotá from Berlin daily in three languages . . . there is no mistaking that the German people are on the crest of the wave and full of themselves -they're exactly like a college with an unbeatable football team...
...Chicagoans, Ravinia is still good. Its opening week, fortnight ago, attracted the largest crowd in its history, more than 10,000 people. Last week, when bolt-upright, beaky, baldish Sir Adrian Boult, music director of British Broadcasting Corp., opened his second week with the Chicago Symphony, a heat wave melted the attendance. Those who braved the swelter heard, and lustily applauded the first complete U. S. performance of a top-notch piece of movie music: a seven-part suite from Arthur Bliss's sound-track for the H. G. Wells fantasy, Things to Come...
...Monroe Doctrine has kept European armies out of South America but it cannot keep out European voices. Lately the U. S. Government has been so worried about short-wave propaganda broadcasts to South America by Germany and Italy that it has considered establishing a Federal radio station to compete with them. Not to be caught napping, U. S. private broadcasters, who fear a Government yardstick station as the devil fears holy water, two years ago began to bid with renewed wattage and State Department tutoring for the ears of the South American audience...
...Tidal Wave (Republic). To frighten Good-Government voters away from the polls, a political machine fakes a terrifying television broadcast of an earthquake and tidal wave which topples Manhattan's Empire State Building, beaches a Leviathan in Wall Street, wipes Grand Central off the timetables. But it doesn't work...
...tidal wave...