Word: autumns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tall, muscular, 20-year-old Son Franklin entered Harvard in 1933 with one unpunished arrest for speeding already chalked against him. He got off with a dressing down from a traffic officer at Windsor Locks, Conn, that autumn, an other at Union, Conn, the following spring. On an icy street in suburban Boston last March his automobile knocked down 60-year-old Mrs. Daniel P. O'Leary. Authorities excused him for the accident, fined him $20 for using out-of-state license plates beyond the 30-day limit. But Mrs. O'Leary, having suffered many...
...hapless Herbert Clark Hoover of Ottawa is Richard Bedford Bennett, a good man, rich, pious, well-meaning, conservative and Premier. Before next autumn at the latest he must fight a Canadian election, and everyone has been saying he must lose for the same reason that Mr. Hoover inevitably lost: the people are sore. Last week Mr. Bennett decided that he would not accept defeat without trying the last refuge of statesmanship, demagoguery. Overnight the leader of Canada's Conservative Party turned such a complete somersault that the Conservative Montreal Gazette said he had "done violence to every Conservative principle...
...what made the 1935 Fords more interesting than other Fords was the fact that their maker announced last autumn with considerable fanfare that he planned to sell 1,000,000 of them-"or better"-in the third year of Roosevelt II. A dozen years ago when Chevrolet sales were 76,000 and Plymouth was not even an idea in Mr. Chrysler's head, Mr. Ford was turning out Model T's at the rate of 2,000,000 per year. But Chevrolet has outsold Ford in six of the past eight years, and the last million-car year...
...inspection of the Harvard athletic plant, the meeting of the football players with whom he will work next fall, and a meeting with President Conant. He will also meet the members of the present coaching staff and tentatively decide which ones he will retain as assistants next autumn...
...effect on the jailer's daughter was even stronger. When his time was up she insisted on going with him, though he made it clear to her that he was only a visitor on earth, would be off to some other place on the first day of autumn. More, he was fleeing from a woman of his own kind, because she had tried to persuade him to embrace mortality. Meanwhile Margaret, the other immortal visitant, having lost her mate, took shelter with a college boy who had given her a lift on the road, and let him become...