Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Landon only one of many guests to be welcomed at the White House. Most numerous group of guests was the Clan Roosevelt. Night before Christmas when the President went out to light the community Christmas tree opposite the White House in LaFayette Square, he was accompanied by a round dozen members of his family (see cut). Nor were they the only family members at the White House. Only members absent were Daughter Anna, now living in Seattle with her husband John Boettiger, newly chosen to run William Randolph Hearst's Post-Intelligencer; Son Franklin Jr., lying in a Boston...
...skates or escaping from the local policeman. Becoming superbly skillful almost overnight, the heroine dresses as a man, shows up her fiance by beating him in the skijoring and bobsled races I hen he recognizes her, leads her astray m the slalom to a ski wedding with a dozen top-hatted ushers tail-wagging down the mountain in formation...
...Grande company, flew to California for an oilmen's dinner in his honor. "Gentlemen," said he, looking brawny President Kenneth Raleigh Kingsbury of Standard Oil of California in the eye, "I am in California and I am in to stay." Richfield's next half-dozen abortive reorganization plans came alternately from Standard Oil's Kingsbury and Consolidated's Sinclair. As soon as the prospects seemed good for selling out to one company the other company would raise the bid. Sinclair's last offer was $17,600,000 in stock, $10,000,000 cash...
...when to use it." According to Northwestern's Mayers, the ludicrous abundance of ethical, proprietary or quack liniments also sold in drugstores to arthritics "is of no greater therapeutic value than would be a hot, wet towel to the afflicted joint." In contrast, conscientious doctors have some three dozen different drugs, four liniments to treat one of the three most stubborn, chronic U. S. diseases...
...novice spectators, a six-day bicycle race appears to be a heroic feat of endurance. To an experienced six-day cyclist, each six-day race is merely a sprint in the endless marathon of his profession. Riding in a dozen or more six-day races in quick succession every season obliges him to become permanently adjusted to living conditions that include ten picnics a day, sleeping four hours out of 24, mostly in 15-minute catnaps, living, in full view and earshot of the crowds that come to watch the race, in a shelter that looks like a flag-draped...