Word: crested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into a rapidly crystallizing and tremendously promising phase of theatrical endeavor. The variously talented groups who for the past few summers have been turning New England barns into lime-lit slices of Broadway and the Village are now moving into serious winter activity in the cities. On the rising crest of this wave the Associated Actors Theatre has moved into the Peabody Playhouse to offer Boston a three week run of hitherto little known plays...
...Reformists, getting nowhere themselves, seemed likely to elect only Mr. Stevens. Hour by hour Mr. King & Liberals forged ahead on the crest of Canada's "against-the-Government'' reaction to Depression, until ultimately they found themselves topping the Liberal landslide which gives Mr. King the largest majority his party has ever had, makes him Premier-presumptive, to be installed in a few weeks...
...dressing room, the only one on the Universal lot with a private kitchen, he consumed enormous lunches of boiled beef with horseradish sauce, crawfish, Wiener Schnitzel and beer. He took pleasure in eating on the set, put on 15 lb. while the picture was in production. At the Beverly Crest house where he lives with his wife and three children, and where each piece of furniture is tagged with a brass plate giving the name of the play from which he earned money to buy it, he is now engaged in removing the 15 lb., a task made difficult because...
...have now passed the crest of the third minor recovery since the low point of the Depression," said the Annalist last week. "According to certain private advices from Washington, the outlook now is for a continuation of the present moderate recession in business activity until late summer, when the effects of new Government expenditures are expected to inject another dose of stimulant into industrial activity...
...washed in Cleveland's splendid Maternity Hospital, one of the assistants of Professor Thomas Wingate Todd, Western Reserve University's anthropologically minded anatomist, marches in with calipers and measuring tape. She measures the baby from head to foot- feet, shins, thighs; hands, forearms, arms; feet to crest of head, rump to top of head; breadth and depth of head. The baby may wriggle and mew but willy-nilly he is one more mannikin in a long, laborious, illuminating research...