Word: waving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...period covered is that of 1587 and the Armada. Old England's glory is landed to the skies in a not too provoking manner, and Queen Elizabeth is never spoken of as Good Queen Boss. Swords flash, ships burn, bolls ring, and the Ruler of the Wave triumphs again. Alexander Korda's film is billed as inferior to "There Goes My Girl," but such is not the case...
From Canton Island in mid-Pacific short wave broadcasts came at noon and at 3 PM Boston time. At 6 PM a third. broadcast came from the coast of Peru. The sun was blotted out by the moon for the longest time at a landless point in the Pacific...
...comers at the unvarying price of $1.50 per meal; baking 15 loaves of 50? bread in his big cookstove thrice a week; swapping supplies for gold at $32 the ounce; introducing to the civilization over which he presides such novelties as moving pictures, electric lights, and a short-wave radio which brings news from Berlin and London but cannot get Seattle...
...belongings to his big new private town house at No. 69 Eaton Square, set off for a three-week holiday in the country. A crowd of Londoners standing outside No. 10 cheered Mr. and Mrs. Baldwin loudly, gave a special yip when he declared with a smile and a wave, "I am now a gentleman-at-large...
With the opening of the C.I.O.'s official campaign to unonize the Ford Motor Company and the news of the ensuing riots and bloodshed the reading public will feel, in all likelihood, a wave of resentment against John Lewis and his group. When a country topples slowly into economic chaos no one thinks to improve his condition by refusing to work. Work and the chance to earn an honest living appear as the greatest benefits to mankind and woe to him who willfully throws up this Godsend to baggle for more money or shorter hours...