Word: ever
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attentive reader of the Post 150 years ago could readily have guessed that all was not well in France. Convulsions, havock, intrigue, were leading up to one of the biggest events that a newspaper ever covered: the fall of the Bastille and the beginning of the French Revolution. Last week, while the 150th Bastille Day was being exuberantly celebrated in Paris, the Daily Telegraph & Morning Post reprinted its admirably terse, vigorous, 150-year-old eyewitness report of the original event...
...spent for something. Increase for the Army-which gets $1,136,305,000-was announced appropriately as young conscripts spent their last day at home, before they set out for six months' training. Few of the 30,000 20-year-old militiamen - first of 200,000 drafted-had ever been away from home for more than a fortnight, found little heel-clicking or saluting at camps, were informally introduced to their officers, given a razor, shaving brush, comb, toothbrush and a post card, ordered to drop their families a note saying they arrived safely...
...Smith went to Dallas as a boy, attended a Moler barber college, graduated (so he said) cum laude. Back in his home county of Delta, he worked in a store, cut hair on the side, studied at night, became a country schoolteacher. Said he: "The only weak moment I ever had was when I played croquet with some old-maid schoolteachers, one of whom I married...
...Ever since Colonel Lindbergh flew one across the Atlantic in 1927, most U. S. aeronautical engineers have been developing air-cooled, radial engines with cylinders raying out like huge wheel-spokes around a short, chunky crankshaft. But as power was increased, radial engines grew so bulky that they dragged on high-speed planes...
...Hardys of Carvel, the old judge (Lewis Stone), his long-suffering wife (Fay Holden), moony Marian (Cecilia Parker) and bratty Andy (Mickey Rooney). The Hardys' wholesome, homey doings are designed to arouse in their millions of fans no emotion stronger than delighted recognition. Andy, more than ever the tail that wags the Hardy dog, reacts to spring by falling in love with his pretty new dramatics teacher (Helen Gilbert...