Word: circuits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When all this was done, old Henry Lyt ton, who was once a baritone on a Mid west gaslight circuit, felt he ought to sing a little. His voice was still clear, although it shook a bit. As his secretary helped him on with his coat, he recalled the words to a song he had sung 65 years ago with a road company in Grand Rapids: "Wake, lady, wake! The hour of love draws near. . . . Wake, lady, wake...
...Atlanta, Byron Nelson putted with mechanical magic up to 45 feet, chopped 13 strokes off par for a 72-hole total of 263, never drew a deep breath as he won the last (and his fourth straight) tourney of the winter circuit. The victory upped his 1945 earnings to $17,857, gave him an eight-to-six edge in tournaments won over capable but collapsible Sammy Snead...
Stomach Abracadabra. The doctor who hung his shingle in the village or rode circuit through the forest was, often as not, a quack. Charms were popular: for convulsions, pour baptismal water over the peony bush; for bedwetting, fried-mouse pie; for a cold, crawl through a double-rooted briar toward the east; for a fever, write "Abracadabra" on a piece of paper and wear it over the stomach. Manufactured charms included "Perkins Patent Tractors" (metal rods to draw out disease) and "Dr. Christie's Galvanic Belt . . . for all nervous diseases...
...June, 1939, the Senate rejected the nomination of William S. Boyle to be U.S. Attorney for Nevada. Later, in the face of certain defeat, nominations of Edward J. Flynn to be U.S. Minister to Australia and James V. Allred to be a judge of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals were withdrawn...
After eight years, the legendary trust-busting suit against the Aluminum Co. of America quietly, and suddenly, ended last week. In Manhattan's U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, a special panel of three judges, sitting for the U.S. Supreme Court, held that Alcoa was a monopoly. Few years ago this would have been the biggest trust-busting news since Standard Oil was broken up. Now, in the light of war changes in the aluminum industry, it had little more than academic meaning...