Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shortcomings of the Shah's dozen years in office, the ludicrous anomalies, misappropriations and mass suffering bring laughter and tears only to the eyes of Westerners. By Oriental standards, his own, the Shah is the man of his generation in the Middle East...
...election Farouk controlled the police and officials. Smartly, he held elections in Upper & Lower Egypt on two different days so his police and troops could concentrate in one section at a time. Nahas Pasha followers were clamped in jail, their identity cards taken up to prevent their voting. A dozen persons were killed, scores injured in clashes. To the 264 seats, only twelve Wafdists and 84 Saadists were elected. His Majesty's Opposition are therefore not expected to give Farouk much trouble...
...this show offered stiff competition to the city parks, it was partly? because Landscaper Aladar Mulhoffer took full advantage of the primaveral weather. The sculpture was set in or against evergreen shrubs or flowering trees and a dozen leafing birches screened a high brick wall in the background. Contemplative visitors could sun themselves on benches. Some of the exhibitors dropped around with their chisels and took final, finicking chips. Despite some absurdities and a monotonous tendency among neo-archaic stone sculptors to leave their forms looking only partly chewed, able and varied work was on hand from Sculptors William Zorach...
...Women are a group of New Yorkers, rich, idle, disillusioned. They include a novelist a perennially pregnant matron, a thrice-married dowager, an innocent, and two not-so-innocents. In the dozen episodes that make up the play one sees them moving in their little world, giving their ideas on men and marriage, with servants and hairdressers and mannequins also contributing their distorted little philosophies...
Harry French was in wrecks on the Lawrence, Leavenworth & Galveston (known as the Lazy, Lousy and Greasy), on the Union Pacific, the Northern Pacific, the Tacoma Eastern, the Oregon Railroad & Navigation, missed wrecks by a hair on half-a-dozen other lines. In those days grades were so steep over the Cascade Mountains that when a dispatcher wired a telegraph operator in the mountains, asked if a runaway stock train had passed through, the reply became a classic: "Roar of wheels. Smell of manure. Yes." Harry French's biggest railroad wreck came when a bridge gave...