Word: datedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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November 8 Proper Date...
November 8 is the logical date to hold the Tercentenary celebration but it falls upon a Sunday two days before a Presidential election that is certain to make all other activity practically impossible. And so it was decided to end the celebration on September 18 as the day on which the General Court which made the grant convened...
...Queen Victoria's only remarks to a phonograph were discovered on a squeaky old Edison cylinder last week, found to be singularly up-to-date and topical. The record, made at Her Majesty's command, voiced her goodwill toward the then Emperor of Ethiopia, great empire-building Menelik. Carried to his wild capital, a reproduction of the cylinder squeaked Victoria's august words into his hairy ear, while the original lay until last week in the archives of London's Edison-Bell...
...expressions, half childish and half addle-headed, which she uses to convey youth's nameless longings and which are often so startlingly misplaced in her portrayals of women of the world, are those which make her portrayal of a girl whom she really understands her masterpiece to date. The supremely difficult feat of characterizing a poseuse so as to mock the poses without mocking the person behind them she carries off with success. This is best gauged by the way audiences wriggle while watching an episode like the one in which, caught by her admirer running up the steps...
Next day, Promoter Mike Jacobs announced the date and circumstances of the next attempt to determine, by public subscription, the still unmeasured capacity of Pugilist Louis to withstand punishment: a bout with onetime Heavyweight Champion Max Baer next month in New York or Chicago, depending on which seems more capable of paying for the privilege...