Word: sacked
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...evening, finds himself a gentleman stow-away on the "Malolo" going from Honolulu to San Francisco in company with the head of his firm and his boss's pretty secretary of whom our hero is enamoured. He makes his escape two jumps ahead of the Captain in a mail sack on board an airplane in a ship-to-shore service, only to be landed in Los Angeles on a painter's platform on the side of a skyscraper. At that point we are entertained for about half an hour with antics on the face of the building which...
Paderewski, nearing 70, arrived look-ing tired and thin after his recent illness. He was accompanied by lank Ernest Schelling, a neighbor of his at Morges on Lake Geneva. He wore the characteristic Paderewski dress: ill-fitting overcoat, slouch hat, black sack suit, white waistcoat, low flannel collar, high button boots. A delegation of Polish war veterans met him at the pier. Newspapers reviewed his political past; emblazoned his most casual utterances. On Oct. 21 in Syracuse, Paderewski begins a nationwide tour of 72 concerts. He will travel as always in a private car (cost: approximately $25,000), take...
...Author. John Galsworthy, 63, read law at New College, Oxford, and was called to the bar, but disliked it; took to traveling and writing instead. So great is the fame of his Forsyte Saga that last spring a telephone exchange in Hacken sack, N. J. was named Galsworthy. He has a prejudice against cinematization, but his famed Old English (with Actor George Arliss) at last went Hollywood. Baldish, white-haired, with lined, long face, honest eyes, he looks his type: the mental and moral bulldog. He has written more than 50 novels, books of essays, plays. Some of them...
...crime, the Chinatowns of San Francisco, New York City, Boston, Chicago have had their splendor wiped away by police cleanup squads during a decade. Modern Chinatowns stand revealed as parts of the surrounding slums. Down their narrow streets busloads of thrill seekers trudge, disappointedly viewing Christian missions, Presbyterian churches, sack-suited U. S. Chinese. Only in curio-shops and such tourist centres do the sightseers glimpse a tawdry replica of the surroundings in which mandarins once paraded their gorgeous costumes on Chinese festival-days, in which painted, gold-spangled girls were sold for hundreds of dollars, in which wide-sleeved...
...dragged a piece of pork across their trail to prevent being followed by hounds, waited for a train to come by. A switch engine backed across the spikes, its crew removed them, preventing disastrous derailment of a Newark-New York express. In Louisville, Ky., small Charlie Bradshaw found a sack of paperhanger's paste powder, took it home, dumped it into his mother's flour can. Biscuits made from the flour caused Charlie, his parents, his brother to be violently ill. His 15-months-old sister was expected...