Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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High in a Manhattan office building is the Havana Post's new news bureau. No newshawks rush in and out. No telegraph instruments chatter. Its one-man staff-stubby, genial, bespectacled Carl Chandlee Dickey, onetime Columbia journalism instructor, an editor of World's Work, Mc-Clure's-has in fact little to do with the Havana Post. His function is to lure more U. S. tourists, more U. S. capital to Cuba.* His method: to send writers and artists to Havana. There magnetic Publisher Carl Byoir takes them in hand, makes them see everything, turns them loose...
...this afternoon. He has won seven straight games this year and is the ace of the mound staff. Georgetown was scheduled to play B. C. yesterday but the game was postponed until today. The Hilltoppers will play the Eagles at 12.30 o'clock at University Heights and then will rush down to Soldiers Field for the Harvard game at four. If Lomax pitches the B. C. game "Packy" White will do the hurling against the Crimson...
...illustrations for his talk portions of several of his pictures, one of which has not yet been released in Boston. Tickets have already been mailed to those on the Fine Arts mailing list, but in addition to those seats there will be places for about 500. These rush seats will be available at 7.45 o'clock...
From Guayaquil, Ecuador, last week went triumphant despatches that U. S. Public Health men had eradicated bubonic plague from the community. The men were Drs. John D. Long and Clifford Rush Eskey. Bubonic plague, the Black Death, has been one of man's most terrific scourges. In the 14th Century it killed 13,000,000 people in China, 24,000,000 in the rest of the East, 25,000,000 (onefourth of the population) in Europe. Its horror is recorded in Daniel DeFoe's Journal of the Plague Year, 1665, when 70,000 died in London...
...five weeks of fearful hardship; when their tent blew away in a gale they thought they would die, almost gave up hope. But they got three eggs, brought them back safe and sound. Blurbs Playwright George Bernard Shaw: ". . . a very horrible experience. Compared with it Amundsen's victorious rush to the South Pole seems as cheerful as a trip to Margate...