Word: wind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Parliament howled long & loud last month when it first got wind of this transaction. Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon, to silence the outcry, promised to see what could be done to squelch the deal. Sir John, reporting to Parliament last week, produced no squelcher. Banking ethics, said he, require that a customer's demand for his money be honored without question...
...Many plants are cross-fertilized, but by wind-borne or insect-borne pollen-the equivalent of sperm in men and animals...
Most people know that George Bernard Shaw was once a music critic, writing for London papers under the name Corno di Bassetto (basset horn, a wind instrument). That he was also an amateur composer was revealed last week when Arthur Pforzheimer, Manhattan rare book dealer, exhibited manuscripts of two sweet Shaw songs, / Lack Thy Kisses and Here She Comes, written in 1884 to verses by a friend, a Miss Radford. > Last fortnight the Basle, Switzerland radio station broadcast a gay little opera buffa, La Contadina, by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, second-rank 18th-Century composer. Mislaid in the Brussels Royal Library...
Ready to start home, Sarabia climbed into his racer at Washington's Boiling Field early one morning last week, headed into the wind, opened his throttle. The ship soared out over the calm, muddy waters of the Potomac...
Donahue's record 14.6 second clocking in the highs at New Haven on May 13 was disallowed because of a favoring wind...