Word: coverly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cover...
Rising promptly at nine in the morning, he first of all reads his daily newspaper from cover to cover. After breakfasting on a roll and tea at 10:30, he retires to practice until 2:15, when lunch is served. His afternoons are spent walking about the grounds, smoking a few specially-made Mignon brand Egyptian cigarets, which he imports from a Manhattan tobacconist, and reading books on history, philosophy and politics. From 5 to 8:30 he plays the piano, then dines and spends the evening in the nightly ritual of a bridge game. At 10:30 he shuffles...
Newsmen who cover Premier Edouard Daladier's office have long known that the Premier and his Minister of Foreign Affairs, Georges Bonnet, are not on the best of political terms. A story which gave an interesting line on each came out of Paris last week. Fundamental difference between the two is that M. Bonnet is an ardent appeaser of dictators, and dreams of being the central figure in a great general European "settlement," while M. Daladier has decided, at least temporarily, to yield no more to Germany and Italy...
...Sanitation of the ship will be accomplished through the medium of an air-lock in which refuse will be deposited. Upon removing the outer cover the air remaining in the lock will drive the refuse away from the ship...
...Satterlee to write a book showing people how to fill out their income tax returns. The 1936 and 1937 versions of Your Income Tax sold 80,000 copies. There was no 1938 edition. Last week Simon & Schuster came out with a brand-new edition in a glaring yellow cover bearing the wily subtitle, How to Keep it Down...