Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would do well in the movies. When Producer Jesse L. Lasky's Gateway to Hollywood contest set up its sideshow in Fort Worth fortnight ago, star-rapt Parson McClung thought he saw his chance. So did Lasky's talent scouts, who put him down as the best prospect† they had found in many a Texas mile...
...session to pass the President's bills. In London Conservative Party whips threatened purges, Prime Minister Chamberlain lost his temper, disgruntled members of the Party in power spoke out in open revolt, Oppositionists cheered signs of a growing split, as the members drew back from the dread prospect of a two-month vacation. The two great organs of Anglo-Saxon democracy imitated each other in the same sense that a blotter carries a reverse image of the signature it blots...
Laundress Mercer, who was elated over the prospect of becoming a Princess and did not mind telling people about it, was dismayed over this turn of events. In letters from Paris, where she arrived after five days of seasickness. Miss Mercer first wrote Harlem friends that life was a song. "The Prince has given me everything that any woman can ask for," she said. "He has a large ten-room apartment, a maid and a Personal Secretary. The Maid does everything for me. My bath, bed and Clothes, it is really too good to last, but I still think...
Extraordinary in international relations is one government's outright censure of another's cabinet prospect. But "Winnie" Churchill is a fairly extraordinary personality in anybody's government. A Boer warrior, a British officer who was a newspaper correspondent in Cuba just before the Spanish-American War, an outstanding member of Herbert Asquith's War Cabinet until he organized the catastrophic Gallipoli campaign, Winston Churchill has remained the brightest, most mercurial and (sometimes) most effective member of Parliament...
Forthwith the farm bill emerged from conference shorn of only $13,000,000 of the Senate's whopping additions. With still more padding in prospect, it totaled $1,205,000,000-a record-and preserved its status as the bill that killed Economy in the 76th Congress...