Word: claus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...schmalz*artist, Phillips Lord (Seth Parker), concocted it more than two years ago, about 1,000 human odds and ends have said their pieces during its half-hour broadcasts. An assorted few: Eleanor Roosevelt, Battling Nelson, Don Budge, Mrs. Dutch Schultz, the postmaster of Santa Claus, Ind., Tom Mooney...
Bailey: Then Al Smith was wrong when he said that nobody wants to shoot Santa Claus...
There is no logical reason to believe that Hitler would act any differently if he were a happy husband and father, when the normal domestic claims have not taken the sting out of Papa Goebbels or made of Papa Goring the ideal Santa Claus for 1938. Sorry, girls, but when it comes to dictators, you just don't seem to make much headway. EDWARD T. MCNAMARA...
...William Case, 84, of Strongsville, Ohio was called "Santa Claus" for his long white beard, his practice of giving nickels to children at Christmas, and for the groves of Christmas trees he had planted and tended on his farm since boyhood. Each year he sent one of his tallest and best trees to decorate Cleveland's public square. This month The American Magazine wrote him up as an interesting American. Fame brought the world to William Case's evergreen groves: people who came at night and stole his trees by the truckload. One night last week he heard...
...hapless vessel, were toasting their shins in a U. S. Liner's galley. Landing in Manhattan just in time to board the departing Cunarder Ausonia for Halifax, they got back home for a Christmas in which wide-awake U. S. seamanship played a far greater part than Santa Claus...