Word: ch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most U. S. ears, Chinese music is at best incomprehensible, at worst a painful noise. To Chinese ears and minds it is not only pleasant but instructive. Philosopher K'ung Fu-tze (Confucius), himself a ch'in (zither) player of no mean order, considered music one of the six fundamental factors in education. In China's great days, music was a required subject for budding administrators. Hundreds of learned books were written about...
...famed Melton Mowbray. Result: he got out of going to Queen Maud's funeral and smooth Brother Kent had to go instead. Still rooting for the underprivileged, the Duke of Windsor asked a British workingman & family to spend a jolly Christmas with him and the Duchess at their Château La Cröe, near Cap d'Antibes, French Riviera...
...hypothetical pedestrian passing with his head down and his own worries in an interval of about ten seconds. On Fifth Avenue this has led to glamor plus novelty. Most noticeable evidence: a change in manikins from a shiny waxwork sisterhood with open-eyed little smiles to papier-máché, wire mesh or carven effigies of the dangling, mask-faced glamor girl...
Died. General Jean-Marie-Joseph Degoutte, 72, "hero of the Second Battle of the Marne" (Château-Thierry); in Charney, France...
SCENE TWO. All right, young man, we're quite capable of finding our way around this stadium alone. We played here before you were born. Those were the good old days. Back in the days of Horween and Haughton, ch, Ed? We used to smear them all, then. Why, if we had ever dropped three games in a row they'd have run us out of the Gold Coast. But no wonder with guys like us, Ed--we were men. We went through teams, not around and over them. Look at the kids here now. Don't they look young...