Word: ark
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Asked the correct pronunciation of the word, the President hazarded "ark-i-vist," with the first "i" as in "hit." He was right...
...lieutenant of Democratic Boss Thomas J. ("Big Tom") Pendergast (TIME, July 23). To their surprise La Capra began talking about the Union Station killings. By last week they had pumped the following story out of him : On the day that Runaway Frank Nash was taken prisoner in Hot Springs, Ark., his friends got in touch with a gangster in Kansas City named Verne C. Miller and enlisted his help in a plan to free Nash on his way back to the Federal penitentiary at Leavenworth. Miller went to Assistant Boss John Lazia for help. Genial, bespectacled Lazia was sorry...
Married. Lynwood Thomas ("School-boy") Rowe, 22, ace pitcher of Detroit's American League baseball team; and Edna Mary Skinner, 21, of Eldorado, Ark.; in Detroit...
While the rhetorical defenses were booming like long-range guns from Washington, other defenders were down on the actual battleline. At Fayetteville, Ark., AAAssistant Director for Production D. P. Trent was telling farmers that AAA is not regimentation at all, that "the most regimental form of regimentation" was cheap grain prices, foreclosed mortgages. At Reno, AAAdministrator Chester C. Davis cried that opponents of AAA had but one idea, the same idea which led to the Depression: to keep the Government from helping farmers. And, most indefatigable of all, was the generalissimo himself, Secretary Wallace. At Ruston, La., at Paducah...
Wood uses a brassie off most tees because with a driver he often hits the ball into hazards meant for second shots. Wispy little Runyan, who learned his golf in Hot Springs, Ark., where his father's farm was opposite the country club, hits short drives but he carries five spoons in his bag and uses them more expertly than any other golf professional in the world. Wood's prodigious driving, Runyan's spoon shots and his brilliant putting, brought them to the 36th green all even. Both sank 12-ft. putts. They halved the 37th with...