Word: datedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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April 14 is a sad date in U. S. history: anniversary of 1) the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and 2) the sinking of the Titanic. Auguries and omens are things which Franklin Roosevelt ignores. Last week, he began April 14 by working till 2 145 a. m. preparing the message to Congress. After six hours' sleep, he rose, breakfasted, sent the message to the Capitol, delivered the Pan-American Day speech at the Pan-American Union Building, received six Campfire Girls and a delegation of United Automobile Workers officials, and delivered the fireside chat...
...President, the prestige of his great office has usually been enough to turn the trick. U. S. citizens have responded to Franklin Delano Roosevelt's appeal that they give the Red Cross $1,000,000 for the succor of the Chinese people by contributing to date some...
Surprises were few as the official Mussolini-Chamberlain text was released in full, but observers noted: 1) It omits the expected direct reference to Palestine, although indirectly referring to existing Italian treaty rights in connection with that mandate. 2) Britain and Italy agree to bring each other up to date each year with information on their military, naval and air forces. 3) Respecting the interests of Italy in the Mediterranean, which were to have been called "vital" while those of Britain were to have been called only "essential," this whole matter is covered by simply reaffirming the Italo-British Gentlemen...
...week the Detroit press discovered a child prodigy. Youngest of a Detroit musician's three children, wide-eyed, curly-haired George Washington Lovett, 4½, has an uncanny memory. He can sing or hum 3,000 pieces of music from popular tunes to grand opera, can name and date all the U. S. Presidents, bound every European country, tell the population of every large city in the world, names and distances from the earth of all the planets, the political effects of Cornwallis' surrender at Yorktown. the batting averages of all the baseball stars. He has also taught...
...Bazett was born and educated) and around Philadelphia (where he teaches) still dose themselves and their children with sulfur & molasses (brimstone & treacle) every spring to thin their blood. In extreme cases they apply bloodsucking leeches. By the medical profession in general, bloodletting is considered even more out-of-date than doses of brimstone & treacle. Yet precisely such venesection, suggested modern Dr. Bazett. might be a helpful prophylactic against the blood torrents of spring...