Word: borings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Upon the affidavit that bore the signature of Mrs. Vanderbilt's own mother. Mrs. Whitney relied most. Mrs. Laura Kilpatrick Morgan minced no words...
Home in the U. S., Helen Reid bore three children. One died of typhoid at the age of nine. Son Whitelaw is now at Yale, Son Ogden Jr., 9, in boarding school. Mrs. Reid slaved for women's suffrage until 1918 brought victory. Then her husband said to her: "You are freed from your suffrage work and responsibility. The Tribune needs you; come down to the office and work the paper's success out with...
...disarming as he announces that this is "a superficial account of an unsensational journey". His Anglo-Saxon honesty compels him to add "I dare say I could have made my half-baked conclusions on the major issue of the Far East sound convincing. But it is one thing to bore your readers and another to mislead them". Such frankness is, indeed, unusual; for it is apparent that there has become a surfeit of "authoritative" pronouncements on the Far Eastern situation by each visiting professor and casual tourist. By the length of his travels in Russia, Manchukuo and China, one feels...
Some months ago in Paris gendarmes made the rounds of the newsstands, snatched up all visible copies of a scandal sheet called Ecoutez-Moi ("Listen To Me"), bore them off to headquarters, fed them to the furnace. The gendarmes were obeying orders from the Foreign Office, which had been stirred to action by the British Embassy, which had been outraged by an article entitled "The Prince of Wales is Bedworthy...
...York City one morning two years ago Mrs. Ida Weiner, a public school teacher, went to her classroom, taught her moppets as usual. When she had finished, she proceeded to a hospital, bore a child. For this performance the City's Board of Education, whose bylaws require a teacher to begin a two-year, payless furlough as soon as she is aware of pregnancy, last week fined Teacher Weiner $300. Teacher Weiner's reported defense: not until the baby arrived did she know that she was pregnant...