Word: overnight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Moving Day. A new nation cannot be built overnight. Driven by the whip of war, the life of China began to flee west ward soon after the first shots were fired at Peking 18 months ago. Students, long the spark plugs of China's national life, were among the first to go. Whole universities, libraries and laboratories moved bag & baggage, hundreds of miles, to regions which before the war had never seen books or schools. Several institutions were set up in the new capital Chungking (''Heavenly Residence"), others went to Chengtu, Sian, Changsha and far-off Kunming...
...this seemed a good joke until the city fathers of Tongres decided to punish zealous M. Grammens for spoiling the markings on their municipal buildings. Sentenced to a month's imprisonment. Painter Grammens became overnight a Flemish martyr. The embarrassed Government released him after only two weeks in jail...
...from a recipe his mother gave her. . . . Before George and Virginia teamed up as a tight little twosome, George gloried in flashy, extremely-cut clothes. ... No real father could be more infatuated than George with Virginia's five-year-old daughter, Joan. . . . For Clark, Carole stopped, almost overnight, being a Hollywood playgirl. . . . Paulette still entertains her guests, when she wishes, on Charlie Chaplin's yacht...
Called the most graceful person in the world,. the pretty figure, skater became a rage among movie and sport fans almost overnight. Her mother and four body guards had to keep a mob of admirers from tearing her apart, in the hall outside her dressing room...
...sink for several seasons. Once a decade there may be an opening night, like that of What Price Glory? in 1924, when an audience stamps, shouts, weeps from excitement, and refuses to leave the theatre. Once a decade some young playwright who was yesterday unknown, not merely succeeds, but overnight arrives for good & all. Eugene O'Neill did it in the early twenties...