Word: size
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Admiral Graf Spee, pocket battleship, 10,000 tons, last word in naval power for its size, was ready. But not for what happened next...
...generally reputed that a Frenchman's heart is four times the size of his brain, and this is probably why the French are able to produce a movie like "Generals Without Buttons," the current attraction at the Fine Arts. For it is hard to imagine Hollywood giving any attention to a story about a fend between two villages, one of which wanted rain for its cabbages, and the other of which wanted sun for its grape vines...
...bathroom, police found ten bloody fingerprints of a man's hand; in the front room, bloody handprints on a nightshirt hung on the doorknob. In the garage, near 18 heavy packing cases, was a pile of 100 used light bulbs. Prize clue, the police considered, was the size-11 bedroom slippers. They set a policewoman translator at the Doctor's desk, soon had a list of eight suspects. At week's end they were hunting a heavily muscled young third-rate prize fighter called "Swede," had traced him to a Florida-bound bus. All the paraphernalia...
...there was a catch in the job: Hearst's empire was tottering. Hearst was getting on and Joe Connolly was expected to get the empire in order before the old man died. He amputated radio stations, shuffled executives, chopped the Chicago Herald and Examiner down to tabloid size. But Connolly could not be everywhere at once. When the Herex and Chicago American units of the American Newspaper Guild struck, Connolly put his cool, alert assistant, Jacob ("Gorty") Gortatowsky, at the conference table...
...opera fans the first public appearance of a new soprano or tenor is as exciting as the trial spin of a new Class-J sloop is to yachtsmen. Last week Manhattan's debutasters trooped to the Metropolitan Opera House to size up the beam, rig and probable speed of two of the Metropolitan's brand-new singers. Chicago operagoers had already bravoed both of them long ago. But that was not enough for Manhattan. For every standee at the Metropolitan regards himself as a member of opera's supreme court, delights to reverse or qualify the opinions...