Word: zero
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Author Busch understands understatement. He describes the vagrants at Mr. Zero's Manhattan canteen: "They could have their bowls filled as often as they liked. They did not spill anything. They ate intensely and without haste. They did not look at each other...
Greater interest than has been felt in years centred on the government declaration to be read to the Lords and Commons by the King-Emperor in his "Speech from the Throne"-actually written last week by Messrs. MacDonald and Snowden in council. As though for a zero hour, the Empire braced itself for the gorgeous moment next week when King George V and Queen Mary would sally from the robing room of the House of Lords (see cover), when His Majesty would signalize the momentous rebirth of the Mother of Parliaments by the gracious words, "My Lords, pray be seated...
...Lieut. Woodring, was 26-year-old Lieut. William W. Caldwell. Over the Rockies flew the couriers, into a Wyoming blizzard. Lieut. Woodring emerged, after two forced landings. Not until landing in Cleveland next day did he learn that his escort lay dead 70 mi. west of Cheyenne. In the "zero-zero" (no ceiling, no visibility) weather, Lieut. Caldwell had crashed into a fence post trying to land. With bad weather still ahead of him over the Alleghenies, Lieut. Woodring prudently transferred to a consolidated Fleetster piloted by a brother officer, landed at Mitchel Field, N. Y. two nights before...
Warren Gamaliel Harding. "The only case of 'triple zero achievement' in our day and generation, so far as I know. ... A man of weak sexuality is in luck, from the point of view demanded by high achievement. For he is not distracted from his aim by blonde winks and brunette giggles. . . . No Elks' picnic ever reaches Par nassus. The only man who has ever achieved something through the aid of tea parties is Sir Thomas Lipton." Such high-sounding words as Idealism and Service have little to do with Achieve ment, says Pitkin. "A man by the name of William...
...whole funeral rather than just the casket. The average funeral comes to around $300. No figures on the actual number of caskets sold by National are ever given out, although the company admits that the all-time highs were during the influenza epidemics when stocks reached zero and caskets had to be recalled from non-flu districts. National estimates, however, that it makes one-sixth of the U. S. output...