Word: work
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Capone has become almost a mythical being, but he isn't a myth-he's a reptile. He deserves to die. He has no right to live." Gathering of corset-makers that night hailed Judge Lyle as "our next mayor." New Move. Four agencies were at work in the nation's two largest cities last week to abate the pestilence of gangdom. In Manhattan the police department announced it would weed out criminal aliens from the daily lineup, turn them over to the Federal agency for deportation. As part of the Department of Labor's effort...
...remembered as a cricketer who could bowl a fast "googly," an ability which still serves him well, spinning curling stones over slippery Canadian ice; because he is a famed grouse shot, was once told by George V (one of the best wing shots in England), that "a little serious work" would make him the best shot in England; because though he might be tainted with impractical Liberal notions, he was known as an administrator who would stand no nonsense. But for all his love of sport, Lord Willingdon is not young (64). Cautious observers questioned whether he had the physical...
...formula which the French, like other European producers, have recently become able to imitate successfully. A theme song - now obsolete in Hollywood - is heartily employed, but "Sous les Toits de Paris" is a pretty song, gay and nostalgic ; it ought to be popular if native orchestras bother to work out a dance arrangement for it. The plot concerns a street-singer and a street-hawker who fall in love with the prettiest girl in their neighborhood. One of them wins her in spite of complications caused by a bully-boy who gets possession of a key to her apartment...
...Pope Pius XI he very soon appropriated large sums to the Congregation for the Propagation of Faith (missionary propaganda) and spurred it to its work among the peoples. He, his Secretary of State, his legates and his nuncios dealt with rulers. His outstanding work in this respect was his settlement of the Roman Question by the Lateran Treaties of 1929, and the establishment of Vatican City as an independent sovereignty...
...were bound for Manila, thence for Australia and New Zealand, China and Japan in quest of big game. That they can and do often make such trips is testimony to the rich success of Publisher Fawcett's simple plan: to harness the smoking-room story and make it work for him. Further testimony is the fact that Fawcett magazines (all monthly) now number twelve. Publisher Fawcett returned from the War to Minneapolis (where he had long been police reporter on the Journal) broke and jobless. He borrowed a typewriter and, half for amusement, half with a vague hope...