Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House News Shoppe" directors ran into difficulties yesterday when petty penny-pinchers became so active that the sale of morning papers had to be stopped until the thief should be apprehended; the culprit is threatened with discipline if caught. The management regrets the brutal frankness of the action, but claim they are riled by the subtility of "the one who gets up so early in the morning...
Dispatches from the West, claim that two uncles and an aunt have filed objections charging that Mrs. Nieman was subject to undue influence and was of unsound mind when she willed the bulk of her $8,000,000 estate to Harvard...
...even Mr. Hurja prepared to predict the exact election results of 1936. He does claim that Roosevelt will carry every state in the South and every state west of the Mississippi. There are 531 votes in the Electoral College. A winning majority is 266. The South (excluding Maryland and West Virginia) and the area west of the Mississippi (including Minnesota) have 272 electoral votes. Therefore, argues Mr. Hurja, Roosevelt is certain of re-election and any states he carries in the Northeast will be surplusage...
...sharp tongue cannot plunge us? "Can we afford dangerous Mr. Eden with the European situation rapidly deteriorating? At a time when it is absolutely vital that we should have at the Foreign Office a Minister whose coolness and discretion-qualities which Mr. Eden's greatest admirers will not claim for him-go hand in hand with detachment, experience and a profound knowledge of the mind and temper of his own and other nations, is Mr. Eden...
...that time, Top Row's chief claim upon the attention of the turf world had been his name. His sire was Peanuts, his dam Too High. The combination had suggested to his owner, Mrs. W. Plunket Stewart, the last row of seats in the peanut gallery. As a racehorse, Top Row had appeared mainly in "claiming" races- minor events for mediocre horses in which each entry is for sale at a specified price, for which he can be claimed by anyone who wants him. In these his efforts had been so undistinguished that Mr. Baroni...