Word: led
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...actors (who otherwise play their roles straight) have made a game of altering their lines if the crowd beats them to the draw. Thus the villain, when led away by the police, pauses to say "Foiled!" He was almost licked one night when the crowd shouted not only "Foiled!" but "Baffled!" "Beaten!" "Frustrated!" "Outwitted!" "Trapped!" "Flummoxed!" He waited until the wits were through, then hissed: "Stymied...
...President Roosevelt] is beginning to loathe Lothian." Of Clarence Streit's plan for "Union Now," which Sargent charges is a British scheme for ruling the world, he says: "The unification of the British Empire goes on, led by the great band of deluded peace-loving Americans, prayerfully chanting: 'Lead Kindly Streit Amid Encircling Gloom...
...years, first in the World, then in Scripps-Howard's Telegram, later in the World-Telegram, when Publisher Howard merged the two papers in 1931. But in all of them it was informal, effortless, personal. A man of tremendous heart and unfailing kindness, Broun was led by his sympathies first into Socialism, then to the brink of Communism, though he never actually joined the Communist Party...
...made money every year. Though Sperry led in gyroscopic instruments, and Pioneer continued to make most of the magnetic compasses, engine gauges, accelerometers, etc.. Kollsman's pet patented altimeter soon copped nearly all of the altimeter market. He made many another fine dashboard instrument besides. Wall Street houses heard of him, urged that he issue stock to finance expansion. Shy Bachelor Paul Kollsman declined, continued to pile earnings back into the company...
Last Monday Winthrop's powerful line, sparked by Bill LaCroix, Bob Winsor, and Jim Rousmaniere, drove through Eliot to a 5 to 2 victory, while Larry Butt, Jock Elliott, and John Irving led the out-of-House sextet to a 4 to 1 win over Leverett...