Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Appearing with a beebe gun of ancient vintage and formidable appearance, Frederick C. Minkler '39 sent a dozen waitresses scurrying for shelter in the Lowell House dining room last night...
...Line, which had been floundering in red ink, asked for bids on a ship such as the Dutch had never owned. She was to be of 36,000 tons, 750 feet overall-only half the size of such mammoths as the Normandie and Queen Mary, but one of the dozen biggest passenger ships in the world, bigger than any U. S. ship save the late (German-built) Leviathan. Holland-America's two new managing directors, Frans C. Bouman, longtime general manager of Rotterdam Lloyd for the Far East, and Willem H. de Monchy of the Van Ommern shipping firm...
Under the glaring lights of Reno's Harold's Club last week a dozen ugly, hybrid* mice blinked beady eyes at the crowd of divorcees, lawyers, barflies crowding into the gambling room. Manager R. I. Smith was trying out a new invention. An attendant hauled a shrinking mouse out of a coop, dropped him on a flat, glass wheel. Frightened, the mouse started to sprint. The wheel spun. When it began to slow down, the mouse sought shelter in one of the 56 glass cages, each marked with a playing card. This time he darted beneath the jack...
...ante). Whether or not they consider gaming sinful in itself, high-minded churchmen hold that the church bemeans herself by acting as croupier. Yet out of more than 200 U. S. Episcopal and Roman Catholic bishops-the most articulate shepherds of their flocks-not more than half-a-dozen in each church have spoken out against bingo games. Joining this minority last week. New York's austere Episcopal Bishop William Thomas Manning threw the weight of his office not only against bingo but against legalized lotteries, currently being considered by a convention elected to rewrite the New York State...
...then 25, came to a solemn conclusion: "There is no God . . . nothing matters as long as we remain healthy and alive . . . insensitiveness is the one cardinal sin." Still alive 29 years later, while continuing to think each year his last, Llewelyn Powys has succeeded in writing a half-dozen books which stand out for their acute observations of nature, their sensitive prose, their blend of pessimism and pagan delight in the "rabble senses." The most polished of the prolific Powys brothers (John Cowper Powys, T. F. Powys), Llewelyn is also the most uneven. But even cautious critics rank three...