Word: 16th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mostly to speak in praise of his fellow member in Woodrow Wilson's Cabinet. Ambassador Daniels reviewed the whole life of the Great Commoner from the "Cross of Gold'' to the evolution trial at Dayton, Tenn., told how he "made" three amendments to the Constitution: the 16th (income tax), 18th (popular election of Senators) and 18th (prohibition). At mention of the 16th everyone applauded, including the President. At mention of the 18th many a spectator looked beyond the statue to the tall tower of Christian Heurich's Brewery running full blast. Said Ambassador Daniels: "During these...
...14th day the dog snapped a fly, ate its usual half-pound of liver, milk, eggs, oatmeal gruel. On the 15th Dr. Cornish said it was semiconscious, "like a thoroughly intoxicated man." That night someone left the laboratory door open and on the 16th and 17th days the dog snuffled with a head cold...
Oldest, strangest and most patrician indoor court game is court-tennis, played with curved rackets shaped like little shovels, and hard, heavy balls. During the 16th Century, the game was so popular that people said there were more court-tennis players in Paris than ale-drinkers in England. One Englishman, Henry VIII, liked it so much that he had a court, with benches in the dedans (netted opening in the wall) for his courtiers, built into Hampton Court. Court-tennis has preserved its prestige at the price of its popularity. Henry VIII's benches are still in existence...
...educational trend, it is only another queasy kow-tow to the Oxford-Cambridge reliquary of worm-holed 16th century poppycock. Some judgment should be employed even in boot-licking. It is to be hoped that President Conant will curb the P. T. Barnum tendencies of the Department before any New York vaudeville engagements are made...
...Charles A. Lindbergh and most of the Rockefellers. Most critics went back next morning for a quieter look at the best exhibition of stage decor and costume ever held in the U. S.: 700 costume plates, plans, drawings and illuminated stage models, tracing the development of theatre art from 16th Century Venice to Broadway 1933. Assembler of this art show was Lee Simonson...