Word: eight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lady ventriloquists, tight-wire dancers, professional fat women, female pugilists. But what about a lady monologuist? What about famed Ruth Draper, solitary U. S. aristocrat of the blatant sisterhood? Last week at the Third Court of the present London Season there were presented to Their Majesties, at Buckingham Palace, eight U. S. citizenesses: Mrs. Alton Brooks Parker, widow of the Democratic candidate for President of the U. S. in 1904. Miss Ruth Draper of Manhattan. Miss Lois Davidson, Houston, Tex.; Miss Neville T. Gherardi, Chevy Chase, Md.; Miss Francis Howard, Atlanta, Ga.; Miss Helen Mary Hurley, Chicago; Miss Clementine Miller...
...voice of helpless Consul Riccardi became a scream. At Rome, according to authoritative reports, Signer Mussolini himself took up his telephone and put searching questions to excited Consul Riccardi. Meanwhile the police of Innsbruck, clubbing right and left, had scattered the mob of flag snatchers after arresting eight. The snatchers, it appeared, were patriotically incensed because a new and larger-than-usual Italian flag had been unfurled, last week, on the 13th anniversary of the day when Italy finally declared war on Austria (see ITALY). The careful telephonic questions of Dictator Mussolini were followed by abrupt commands. Consul Riccardi gulped...
...which it was in 1920, when the Young Turks set up their capital there to be out of reach of Allied War boats. Naturally the album contained other photographs. But these showed only what King Amanullah could see about him: the New Angora, a city of four, six and eight-story buildings, still raw and unlovely, yet proving that at last an Asiatic people is making swift, dynamic progress...
...TIME, May 21, it was stated that the Conference voted away the eight-year time limit upon; the tenure of office of Methodist bishops . . . this phrase was incorrect. It should have been "tenure in a given residence...
...school building (to replace the present one on 55th street which replaced the original one on 48th street) will overlook the garden of Mrs. Andrew Carnegie on 91st street. It will house 300 day pupils and 60 pupils from far away. Classes will continue to be limited to eight members. Each pupil will still study ten or more subjects every year, in the famed Spence tradition of "varied curriculum...