Word: boringly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Crown Princess Juliana of The Netherlands bore a baby girl last year, many Dutchmen were downcast. They wanted a boy. In Manhattan thoughtful Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson of the tabloid Daily News got to thinking about this and about all the family headaches, royal crises, useless conversation and bad guesses caused by similar uncertainties throughout history. He told his staff to see what could be done to end them...
...male offspring, with 1% or 2% lactic acid solution to get females, then mated them as quickly as possible. In forty-two litters since last July, Director Durfee has reported 100% success in predetermining the predominant sex. Rat A845 (see cut) was douched once with lactic acid and bore six females, two males. Then she was douched with bicarbonate and bore four males, two females...
...McCabe with needless indirection, "it may be quite difficult for us to persuade [our clients] that any further advertising should be placed." To Colonel Robert Rutherford ("Free dom of the Press") McCormick's news paper only one reply was possible. The Tribune made it in an editorial that bore the imprint of the Colonel's own choleric style. Snapped the "World's Greatest Newspaper": "We're going to continue to edit the Tribune and Mr. McCabe is going to continue not to edit it. If Mr. McCabe thinks his client isn't getting its money...
...didn't take an experienced trouper like Vag long to realize that he had strayed into the subterranean dressing rooms. Perturbed, he tried to retreat up the stairway, but a bevy of Arlington Amazons charged down on him and bore him along like a chip on some jabbering, be-furred tidal wave. Gadzooks, to be drowned in maidens and biushes! Right up to a door they pushed him. In self defense, Vag opened the door, slithered inside, and banged it behind...
Five hundred disappointed lecture-goers were turned away yesterday afternoon from a Fogg lecture room in which Professor Robin Feild was extolling the merits of Mickey Mouse and associates. Each of the five hundred bore witness to the wide interest which has been evoked by the summary dismissal of the department of Fine Arts' most popular professor. The spontaneous outburst of student indignation and the formation of a Fine Arts Concentrators' committee to make formal protests are other danger signals indicating that the Feild Case is by no means closed. Much as it would like to, the department will find...