Word: born
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Born in England, reared in Utah which sent him to the Senate in 1905 and 1911, slim, grey-bearded old Justice Sutherland voted against the New Deal in twelve important Court decisions before he wrote last fortnight a unanimous opinion sustaining the Government's right to finance power plants with PWA funds. In retirement, he will live in Washington, stand ready to serve occasionally in crowded lower courts-like Justice Van Devanter (see p. 18). Since all eight remaining Justices, except Minnesota's Butler, come from East and South, it seemed a virtual certainty that Justice Sutherland...
...years since he was born on an Alabama cotton patch, Negro John Claybrook has by slow degrees made himself one of the most affluent members of his race in the South. He owns a large tenant farm, the bank and general store in its Negro settlement of 300, a fortune estimated at $100,000 and a colored baseball te?m. He lives in Memphis in the height of comfort. Credit for all this worldly success, Negro Claybrook, who never went to school, ascribes to his "mother...
...police and Washington income tax sleuths said they have never heard of Alex ("Kid Tiger") Sikorski. Yugoslav police believe it was he who turned up in Belgrade last year boasting he was a faithful henchman of the late John Dillinger on his way to "get" Anna Sage, the Rumanian-born "Woman in Red" who put the finger on Dillinger. In Europe it can be as much fun to pretend to be an American gangster as to pretend in the U. S. to be a prince...
...model Author Rodocanachi disclaims any single prototype, says he drew on several adventurous Greeks of his acquaintance. His own career offered a good starting point. Egyptian-born, English-educated, Constantine Rodocanachi is a veteran of the Greco-Turkish, the Balkan and World Wars, was a leader of the Venizelos revolution. He has made and lost several fortunes, served in the diplomatic corps. Now 58 years old, he has retired to devote his full time to writing. Forever Ulysses is his first novel...
...called-bundle them; which bundling implied, putting them to bed together, the lady with only her under-petticoat on, and her sweetheart nothing but his breeches." Although this practice was denounced in some quarters as "that mischievous, wicked habit," in 1840 a commentator remarked: "Ten irregular citizens are now born to the republic, for one in those days of bundling simplicity...