Word: whirlwind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...super-talent scout (Rosalind Russell) is used to earning commissions as handsome as she is. But when the film begins she is having trouble locating a bunch of brawn adequate to .portraying The Whirlwind, hero of a best-selling romance which is rocketing screenward. In time's nick, she discovers that the book's author, a shy professor (Willard Parker), has just the physical architecture for the role. So she blandishes him into taking it, makes casual use of his infatuation with her to warm him up for the picture's love scenes...
After a three-month whirlwind Bond-selling tour of Mississippi towns (eating the best food at the tables of the best citizens), Roscoe Mayo Holdeman was taken into custody by the FBI. Holdeman had spent one year in the Army as a flying cadet. Last June he was given a medical discharge. He had never been outside the U.S. Unimpressed by his record as the smoothest, fastest, most effective bond salesman in Mississippi, the FBI locked ex-Cadet Holdeman up on charges of impersonating a U.S. Army officer...
Last Saturday, one of our more prominent Ensigns and one of our loveliest WAVES, after a four week whirlwind, high frequency courtship, completed a coupled circuit in a little church on Staten Island, New York...
This happy couple had a whirlwind courtship; they went out to dinner and auditing practically every night . . . (they did not play the ponies...
...said: "I have seen him wield more power than the President." Uncle Joe owed much of his power to Maine's resolute Tom Reed, who had so rigged House procedure (the famed Reed's Rules) that the Speaker became, in effect, a dictator. Uncle Joe reaped the whirlwind in the spirited "revolution of 1910," when the House, under the prodding of a young Representative from Nebraska named George Norris, rewrote the rules...