Word: clara
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First to be enrolled in the District of Columbia's drive was 90-year-old Mrs. Peter Voorhees Degraw, only living founder, onetime aide to Clara Barton, organizer of the American Red Cross...
Generally the grammar is pretty good, but, in the issue of TIME, July 24, under Transport, occurs this sentence: "[Mrs. Clara Adams] . . . broadcasted over a Honolulu-San Francisco radio hook...
Winter Carnival (United Artists-Walter Wanger). Ann Sheridan, born Clara Lou Sheridan in Dallas, Tex. 24 years ago, left college for Hollywood when she won a Paramount "Search for Beauty" contest in her neighborhood in 1933. After two years on the Paramount payroll, during which she failed to set any celluloid on fire, she was dropped, spent a year looking for a job. Warner Bros, put her under contract in 1936. Last year the Warners, envious with the rest of Hollywood of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's glamorous Hedy Lamarr, started circulating glamorous photographs of Ann Sheridan, her red hair...
Ekins' record stood unchallenged till last month, when a wealthy widow named Clara Adams, famed in airline circles as an inveterate first-nighter, saw her chance. When Pan American's Dixie Clipper soared away from Port Washington, L. I. on its first transatlantic passenger flight, Mrs. Adams took her seat. In Marseille her plans nearly went agley. Fellow-tripper Julius Rappaport of Allentown, Pa., confessed that he too hankered to make a record. With chivalry worthy of Phileas Fogg, he finally withdrew, leaving Widow Adams unrivaled in the field. July 3rd found Widow Adams in Jodhpur, India, joshing...
Among the 22 early birds: Benjamin ("Sell 'em Ben") Smith, demon speculator in oil, gold, airplanes; rich Long Island widow Clara Adams, inveterate first tripper who is trying to round the world in 16 days (for passage on the Graf Zeppelin in 1928 she paid $3,000); Mrs. Elizabeth Stettinius Trippe, wife of Pan American President Juan Terry Trippe; Captain Torkild Rieber, Board Chairman of Texas Corp.; United States Lines President John M. Franklin; Investment Banker Harold Leonard Stuart; a lawyer from Allentown, Pa., named Julius Rapoport; San Francisco Shipowner Roger Lapham, whose American Hawaiian Steamship...