Word: brought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four female cousins, all over 70; that, although he was no college man, he had provided that after his cousins' deaths the $8,000,000 should be divided equally among Yale, Harvard and Princeton, which had never heard of him. Once more an unknown financial breeze had brought U. S. education one of its always-to-be-expected, unexpected windfalls...
...Broadway blithe May brings only the kiss of death. This year, however, May tripped into Manhattan carrying in her arms a lusty infant World's Fair from Flushing, Long Island, a babe supposed to bring luck to Broadway. All it has brought so far is one of the worst theatrical slumps in years, perhaps because the curious are visiting the Fair instead of the theatre...
...handsome Henry Wilfred ("Bunny") Austin, British Davis Cup tennis player, now Dr. Buchmairs chief MRA-sayer. Sportswriter Vidmer thereupon remarked that, before preaching such doctrines. U. S. sportsmen might well clean up U. S. sport. He concluded: "Moral rearmament, as it is described by the disciples who have brought it to these shores, is magnificent and magnetic, but it also is a mammoth undertaking. It must be universal and unanimous...
...Brought up in a substantial Episcopal family, Heywood Broun is one of the ablest Bible-quoters in U. S. journalism. At Harvard he was most influenced by a course in the Bible as English Literature. He is today happily married to a Catholic second wife-Constantina Maria Incoronata Fruscella Dooley ("Connie") Broun. But "Connie," firm as she is in dealing with her husband, did not bully him into turning Catholic. Broun's conversion came slowly, was sealed in the talk with the newspaper friend turned priest-Rev. Edward Patrick Dowling, S. J., 40, associate editor of the Queen...
Publisher George Palmer Putnam, who loves publicity, last week got plenty. He has lately published a fantastic thriller (The Man Who Killed Hitler) which, he reported, brought him numerous anonymous threats. Last week somebody went too far. Found trussed and gagged 100 miles from his North Hollywood home, Mr. Putnam mystified police with a tale of kidnapping by Nazis: "The two men conversed with each other in German. . . . One of them asked who furnished the information for the book. . . . I told them I didn't know...