Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eighth-you further state that "at Houston in 1928 Carter threatened to beat up Rev. J. Frank Norris, a Protestant preacher, who opposed the Presidential nomination of Catholic Al Smith. When Smith was nominated, Amon Carter's exuberance knew no bounds. In his exhilaration he shot his six-gun through the door of an elevator in the Rice Hotel." This entire statement is a pure fabrication, false, slanderous, libelous and vicious...
...Henry the Eighth," this week's full course at the University, has chosen to concentrate its attention on Henry as a husband; it possesses none of the political flavour of Mr. Arliss' Disraeli. There are, of course, occasional parentheses on foreign policy, but they are pretty half-hearted parentheses, and Mr. Laughton feels with the audience that he had better get on to his business. Each of the six queens is dutifully trotted out, and as some of them were in real life fascinating and unfascinating and some unfascinating, so are they in the picture. But there is neither...
...only private army in the British Empire is the Army of Atholl, three Scots infantry companies permitted the Dukes of Atholl by Queen Victoria.* Last July their commander, tall, hearty Sir John George Stewart-Murray, eighth Duke of Atholl. "richest man in Scotland." began to sell what he vowed were not lottery tickets. Proceeds of the sale, his agents announced, "shall be disposed of in such manner as the Duke of Atholl shall, in his absolute and uncontrolled discretion, think fit." Some 337,000 Englishmen had enough faith in the Duke of Atholl's dis cretion...
Died. Princess Nobuko Asaka, 42, aunt of Japan's Emperor Hirohito. eighth daughter of the late Emperor Meiji, wife of Prince Yasuhiko; of nephritis; in Tokyo...
...Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, March 9, 10, and 11, Harvard will act as host to the eighth annual meeting of the New England Model League of Nations. The organization, in which 31 New England colleges are now participating members, was founded in 1927 to stimulate interest in the procedure and activity of the League of Nations at Geneva and to acquaint undergraduates interested in international affairs with the difficulties involved in present-day diplomacy...