Word: wound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Before the Army & Navy reception, which wound up the White House social season, President & Mrs. Roosevelt had as their dinner guests Dr. & Mrs. Walter N. Thayer. Good friend of the Roosevelts, Dr. Thayer is New York State Commissioner of Correction. Another guest was Geoffrey O'Hara, who owns a copyright to "The Star-Spangled Banner" by virtue of having transposed it to a lower key and who wrote the War song "K-K-K-Katy." After dinner the President listened appreciatively while Singer McGregor McKnight rendered a number with music by Composer O'Hara, lyrics by Dr. Thayer...
...black company and its scenery to Chicago for a 19-week engagement, the longest outside New York. Then The Green Pastures looped about through the Midwest, swung out across the prairies and over the Rockies to Seattle, down the West Coast through San Francisco and Los Angeles, wound up its first touring season in Denver in July 1932 (see map). Next season the tour began in Boston, Mass., hopped from town to town in the Middle Atlantic States and closed in Easton, Pa. Producer Stebbins, worried lest Southern audiences might resent a Negro's impersonation of the Deity, invited...
...slow fight through the jungle back to safety and fortune. First their drivers desert. Then they fall into the hands of the savage Mois. In the village where they are held captive Perken finds the French deserter he is looking for-blinded and chained to a grindstone. Though badly wounded, Perken bluffs their way free and they head for the mountains of his friendly tribes. But his wound festers and they have to abandon their precious bas-reliefs. Long before they reach the mountains they know that Perken at least will die, even if Claude escapes the pursuing Mois...
...insane asylum." Another addressed itself to U. S. bankers, college presidents. Senators, Governors and Mayors who have in times past visited Mexico City, been received by Governor Saenz, fêted and presented with a souvenir sombrero made with pure silver. "If any of you," Frente á Frente wound up, "have been presented with one of these pure silver 'charro sombreros' and take pride in showing it to your friends as the most wonderful souvenir from old romantic Mexico, maybe after reading this article you will not be so proud of that PIECE OF SILVER. The silver...
Employment. The Man of the Year spent $1,400,000,000 to relieve the unemployed, not counting $814,000,000 for CWA*-his first work relief project, wound up because it was too expensive. But the American Federation of Labor last week reported that the unemployed for December totaled 11,459,000 which was 400,000 more than a year earlier...