Word: booths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...booth at a London Fair, Queen Mary saw a jigsaw puzzle, tried to put it together, failed, bought it. Next day she made more news by wearing a feather-decked hat instead of her customary high toque...
...Washington, Mrs. Mary Booth, a young and pretty widow, was sitting at her typewriter in the office of the Comptroller of the Currency when she heard her ticket on Highlander had won her $50,000. Friends, newshawks, photographers poured in. Mrs. Booth was worried by such distractions from her work. "The Comptroller might not like it," said she. "In a few years I might need...
...scared for the first time in my life. I said to myself. 'Accidents don't happen in my family,' and I went on down through the night." "This General business is not all that it is cracked up to be." concluded General Evangeline Cory Booth after her first six weeks as international autocrat of the Salvation Army...
Ward, son of a Ford factory worker, an A student in political science who is even more famed as a trackman than footballer, sat calmly in a radio booth, watched his teammates defeat the Southerners...
...canard that "a mysterious letter by which her Founder-Father willed her his throne" was to be presented by Miss Booth at the High Council is, of course, ridiculous. William Booth exercised his legal right and named his son Bramwell Booth to succeed him. Having done that he had no further power of controlling the succession. William Booth died in 1912, the only General of The Salvation Army who had the power of nominating his successor. Evangeline Booth was duly elected General by the legally constituted body deriving its authority from the Act passed in the British Parliament...