Word: bored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Lawyer Ziegler went on to introduce leases changed in 1935 whereby 62½% of claim proceeds went to the lessors, documents that bore the large Berry signature, Senator Berry had already left the hearings, explaining that his presence was necessary for Senate consideration of the Farm Bill...
From the church, Prince and new Princess von Starhemberg went directly to file papers on the basis of which an Austrian court immediately declared legitimate the son which the bride bore the bridegroom three years ago. The annulment of the Prince's earlier marriage was on the ground that he and his first Princess made and kept a pre-nuptial pact to have no children. Thus the child which was a bastard for three years now is a legitimate Prince von Starhemberg, aristocratic to his baby fingertips...
TIME'S timely description of the Sky Tiger by Bell out of Buffalo goes haywire in its second paragraph (TiME, Nov. 15, Transport). The printer's the fall guy (we hope) when he says "two .50 calibre (1½ in.) guns." Calibre is the diameter of the bore between the lands. A ".50 calibre gun" is a ½ in. gun. Incidentally the service says "calibre...
...deeply forested, lake-strewn country of Finland was celebrating a national festival. Every Finnish hamlet was gaily festooned and beflagged. Schoolchildren had the day off. Deputations from the provinces and from many foreign countries, converging on Helsingfors, the capital,, bore testimonials signed by many a foreign bigwig. At night the festivities culminated in a gigantic concert in the city's largest auditorium, with two symphony orchestras and a choir of 500 voices. There were 8,000 people in the audience. In places of honor sat President Svin-hufvud, Field Marshal Baron Mannerheim and the visiting Prime Ministers of Denmark...
...World War, was commissioned as a photographic expert, now holds the rank of lieutenant-commander (reserve), spends vacations on navy cruises. Ebb Tide (Paramount). The tall tale, originally told by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne, of the adventures of three beachcombers in a stolen schooner never bore up very well under literary scrutiny. But in the kindlier glow of cinema Technicolor, Ebb Tide's whoppers become leisurely implausibilities, and the story's calm unreality is disturbed only by a thumpingly real and remarkably photogenic typhoon...