Word: citizenness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year, and served three-quarters of the time as an inconspicuous member of the minority-had given the U. S. at large no high opinion of his abilities. In his home town of Uvalde, fellow Texans who had seen him rise from a penniless young lawyer to a substantial citizen, reputedly worth $1,000,000, thought differently. So did local politicians who realized that he had his Congressional district sewed up so tight that after the first one he never had to make another campaign speech in it. So did national politicians who had watched from the inside his quiet...
...Frederick Weyerhaeuser told his partners when he bought his first acreage west of the Rockies, "nor for our children, but for our grandchildren." Frederick had by that time begotten John Philip and three younger sons, three daughters. He had settled in a great house in St. Paul, whose richest citizen he was. But with shyness and dislike of ostentation characteristic of Weyerhaeusers to this day, Frederick's house was not quite so big as James J. ("Empire Builder") Hill's next door...
...fuel, four sandwiches, two canteens of water, army emergency rations. Sitting on a gasoline tank, seeing through a periscope, Capt. Charles A. Lindbergh flew the Spirit of St. Louis to Le Bourget Field in 33½ hr., landed to receive such acclaim as had been given no private citizen before or since...
...guillotine takes its deadly toll as The Terror rules Paris. But Citizen Robespierre is annoyed. Victim after victim slips through his fingers and crosses the channel to England, all through the infernal machinations of that "Damned elusive Pimpernel." Into the background of eighteenth century France and England Leslie Howard fits like a package of cigarettes in cleophane. As the uncannily clever schemer disguised as an old hag, as the suave nobleman who courts, death to save his friends, the nobles of the French court, as the fastidious fop who advises the Prince of Wales on the proper jabeau, Howard...
...flag, a babe-in-arms. They were Dodger Bergdoll's wife & children, come to visit his 76-year-old mother in Philadelphia and petition the Federal Government to pardon him, give back his confiscated $800,000 fortune, let him return to the U. S. a citizen. The Government promptly indicated it would do no such thing. In Germany this week Fugitive Bergdoll announced he would surrender to the U. S. and stand trial in Federal Court if the five-year court-martial sentence against him were annulled...