Word: ever
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Incalculable tons of water had cascaded over Niagara Falls between 1776 and a summery night last week when the great-great-great-grandson of England's George III was trundled across Niagara River to set foot in the U. S. A.-first British sovereign ever to do so. A royal red carpet was spread on the station platform at Niagara Falls, N. Y. and when the blue & silver royal train slid in, Secretary of State Cordell Hull & wife stepped up to welcome the visitors. Mr. Hull said: "Your Majesties, on behalf of the Government and the people...
...MacLeish appointment was, of course, none of the House's business. But to the Senate, whence his confirmation must come, went protests against Poet MacLeish based on charges-more considerable than "Communism"-to which he humbly pleaded guilty. In announcing the appointment, Mr. Roosevelt explained that ever since 77-year-old Dr. Herbert Putnam (40 years Librarian, emeritus since last year) asked to be relieved, a search had been afoot for a successor possessing the many qualifications required. Mr. Roosevelt had finally decided that technical assistants could be hired for a librarian whose attainments as "gentleman and a scholar...
There has been no time when Lindbergh and the public ever fully understood each other. The supreme irony is that if they had understood, there would have been no difficulty. Lindbergh is a kind of man whom Americans instinctively appreciate and like: practical and resourceful, with a mechanical turn of mind, an extraordinary competence in his business, full of animal spirits, empty of all pretension, built around a steel-tough core of reserve and self-respect...
Three years later when tragedy struck - 20-month-old Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. was kidnapped and murdered-newshawks assigned to one of the biggest stories ever to break on Page One felt there was no need to consider Lindbergh's feelings. He did not expect it, but the final act of the tragedy was also his final embitterment. The night after he had identified the body of his son in the Trenton morgue, two photographers got into the building and attempted to take pictures of the body...
...less astonished were the 7,000 spectators who were sitting in the stands at New York's Polo Grounds. They had never seen anything like that crazy fourth inning. Neither had anyone else-for no team in the history of major-league baseball had ever chalked up five homers in one inning...