Word: wide
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...career of one of the underworld's biggest and slimiest. The verdict made Lepke subject only to a two-year term, $10,000 fine, but opened wide the door to his conviction on the other counts, which involved 162 more years, $170,000 more in fines...
...this day. For the murder of Stalin's "Dear Friend," Sergei M. Kirov, head of the Leningrad Soviet, who had once called Comrade Stalin the "greatest leader of all times and all nations," 117 persons were known to have been put to death. That started the fiercest empire-wide purge of modern times. Thousands were executed with only a ghost of a trial. Secret police reigned as ruthlessly over Russia as in Tsarist times. First it was the Cheka, next the OGPU, later the N.K.V.D.-but essentially they were all the same. Comrade Stalin recognized their function when...
...before had ever managed to steal the great U. S. radio Christmas show from Tiny Tim. But this year Shirley Temple stole into millions of U. S. homes on Christmas Eve, twinkling after Happiness in a wide-eyed episode from Maeterlinck's The Blue Bird. She said pretty Merrys to everybody, blended her fair treble with Baritone Nelson Eddy in an unprecedented Silent Night...
...intervals, Nat Karson designs a new show for the Radio City Music Hall. On Monday he makes his rough sketches, on Tuesday helps daub the sets for the Music Hall stage (world's biggest), where a line that looks threadlike to the audience may be six inches wide. Wednesday there is an early-morning rehearsal. After the Hall closes at midnight, the scenery is hung and lighting effects tried, followed by a dress rehearsal, with the full Rockette chorus, until the doors open at 10:30 Thursday morning. "How often I want to call Mr. Roosevelt," sighs Nat Karson...