Word: flips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington sent no crews at all, last week's Poughkeepsie Regatta would still have amounted to a demonstration of Washington's rowing supremacy. Every shell on the Hudson except Syracuse and Columbia used the Washington technique of a short "layback" and a swift catch. But none could flip the blades back faster than Washington's oarsmen, who concentrated their strength in the middle of the stroke, made most headway even in choppy water...
...Cromwell, who declares that an expert vaulter's greatest single asset is a correct psychological outlook. Both run a 99-ft. stretch before the takeoff, grasp the pole at 12 ft. 2 in. for the ascension. At the crest of their flight they are poised almost upside down, flip their bodies over the bar with a quick kick. Meadows is light (165 lb.) and fleet, depends upon speed along the runway. Sefton is taller (6 ft. 3 in.) and huskier (180 lb.), counts more upon brute strength...
...people, as ridiculously touchy after all, as our letters to the editor seem to indicate? If so, it would seem that the flip tail-twisting in which TIME is wont to indulge is a distinctly beneficial antidote. It appears that the public capacity for getting insulted is expanding, and crowding out, in the process, our much-vaunted American sense of humor...
Robert Montgomery, who startled admirers of his customary flip performances last week by appearing as a pathological murderer in Night Must Fall (see p. 67). promptly stepped into the news in still another role-as president of Hollywood's Screen Actors' Guild, Inc. Rumors of stirring social consciousness among cinema stars, notably pert little Jimmy Cagney, have been emerging from Hollywood more & more frequently of late. Prime outward evidence is the 5,600-strong Guild, to which virtually all film actors and actresses belong. Last week's strike faced the Guild with its first big test...
First publisher to take advantage of the price-fixing provisions of New York State's Fair Trade Act since it was declared constitutional in a judicial flip-flop last month (TIME, March 22) was Macmillan Co., which last week fixed the price of Novelist Margaret Mitchell's gusty Gone With The Wind at $3. Reason: the book which has sold at the rate of 3¼, copies per minute since it was published last June has been a favorite object of price wars between Manhattan department stores.* Swept back to Macmillan next day like autumn leaves were...