Word: beeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hero and villain for a pictorialized serial in a local tabloid, a man with good eyesight to inspect the life buoys which hang from various bridges in and around Boston, and the Harvard members of a combined Harvard-Radcliffe team which took part in the first trans-Atlantic spelling bee with Oxford. Among the regular summer jobs the largest earnings went to tutor-companions, $34,429 for 85 jobs, and camp councilors, $23,860 for 112 jobs. The University's summer guiding service, which provided without charge formal tours for nearly 7,500 visitors, produced $1,617 in earnings...
Ronald Colman, Carole Lombard, Cary Grant, José Iturbi, Groucho and Chico Marx (Sun. 10 p. m. NBC-Red) in a new-style Hollywood radio bee called The Circle. Actor Colman is president. Actress Lombard secretary, Actor Grant beadle (party whip), Kellogg's Corn Flakes sponsor. Last week, at the first meeting, the talk got around to poetry, fur coats, sweet potatoes...
...International Typographical Union, 320 new dailies started in the U. S., 319 were suspended. Most of the new papers were born in places like Goose Creek. Texas, Aliquippa, Pa. and Lead, S. D. The dead included such sizable city dailies as the New York American, Toledo News-Bee, Rochester Journal, St. Paul News...
Most promising field for starting new papers apparently is in cities where mergers and losses have created a one-paper or one-publisher monopoly. Last week in Omaha, where the World-Herald has been all alone since the Hearst Bee News folded its wings last year. Russian-born Publisher David Blacker announced he was stepping up his weekly Post to a semiweekly, would make it a daily by January 1 "or quit." The Post was started two months ago after 25,000 Omahans took a chance and subscribed. It is said to be selling around 50,000 copies...
...would date, knowing that it already dated when first written. For old as folk drama is the tale of warm-hearted Lightnin' Bill Jones, who loafs as chronically as Rip van Winkle, lies as outrageously as Tartarin of Tarascon. Typical whopper: how he drove a swarm of bees across a prairie in the dead of winter without losing a bee...