Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...department store depositary for infants. When Ronald finally manages to marry his inamorata, Mrs. Colgate follows them to Niagara Falls on their honeymoon, spoils their fun. Finally friends of the young couple arrange to have Ronald witness his wife being abducted. This leads him to leap out of the wheel chair to which his mother has reduced him, establish his independence by a rescue. Laura Hope Crews who played a serious version of the same role in The Silver Cord does as well as anyone possibly could with Mrs. Colgate. The picture is a minor injustice to her as well...
...Kelsey-Hayes Wheel Corp., whose shares were quoted at $60 in 1929, $2 last week...
...been heard a dull and droning sound: the voices of delegates to the League's impotent Disarmament Conference endlessly talking about ratios, quotas, munitions, mustard gas, manifestoes. There was a new noise in Geneva last week: the clatter of crutches, the thumping of canes, the creaking of wheel chairs as 8,000 veterans, representatives of 8,000,000 more in a dozen countries, stumbled in ungainly parade through the streets to let the Disarmament Conference know that they were tired of talk. The veterans were representatives of two international associations with names as awkward as their own twisted limbs...
...film has shown them from the beginning of their romance in a New England village to the beginning of their senescence. John (Leslie Howard) appears first on a high-wheel bicycle, persuades Mary to go out West with him instead of marrying the British nobleman her family has chosen. In California they live in a cabin, have a child, raise cattle. Rustlers steal the cattle. John organizes a posse, hangs three rustlers. The rustlers burn the cabin, cause the baby to die of shock. John & Mary build a new cabin, have four more children. In course of time. John...
...inventors of most games are as anonymous as the inventors of the candle or the wheel. Not so the inventor of basketball. He is Dr. James A. Naismith, director of the department of physical education at Kansas University. At McGill University he was the best athlete in his class (1887). From McGill Theological Seminary he went to Springfield Y. M. C. A. College to teach. Amos Alonzo-Stagg went there the same year to coach football and Dr. Naismith played centre on Stagg's team. In 1891, he was assigned to design an indoor game for a gymnasium class...