Word: 23d
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...YALE TO OPEN ITS 23d YEAR THIS MORNING N. Y. Heraid-Tribune headline...
...23d annual meeting in Washington last month the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People announced a new campaign to combat Jim Crowism. Planned by Lawyer Nathan R. Margold of New York, a program was adopted to bring simultaneously "more than 100 cases in as many communities to test the right of States or of individuals to infringe on the social as well as the civic rights of Negroes...
...Temple last May met Baha'i's 23d Annual Assembly. Quietly, with little ceremony, 95 delegates from 50 local Baha'i communities elected a board of nine directors for the year. Chairman and head of the U. S. and Canadian movement is Allen Boyer McDaniel, Washington engineer. The organization is simple; there is no proselytizing. People may join (and contribute money) of their own volition. Some who have shown interest are King Zog I of Albania; Count Ilya Tolstoy, son of the late great novelist; Mrs. Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, wife of New York's onetime Lieutenant Governor, whose daughter...
...chief engi- neer died. With part of his body they made a broth. "The salt in the sea water in which the flesh was boiled was absorbed by the flesh, leaving the broth free from salt and not unpleasant to taste. The flesh was like tough veal." On the 23d day the survivors drank the blood from a fresh corpse. Next day they sighted land. Out of 32 men, 16 were alive...
...Goethe, but it is certainly quite as sound as Parson Weems' Life of Washington or Uncle Tom's Cabin." His concluding remarks are a typical piece of Menckenian irony: he describes a hanging he once reported, at which the Baptist prisoner loudly recited the 23d Psalm while the sheriff and the hangman were busied with the final preparations; the fall of the drop cut short the prisoner's words of praise. Says Mencken: "As an American I naturally spend most of my time laughing, but that time I did not laugh...