Word: everly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week the 40th of this long line of monarchs also made history. He set out to visit: 1) a Dominion in which no British Sovereign had ever set foot; 2) a hemisphere never penetrated in person by any ruling King of Great Britain; 3) the nation which but for the stupidity of his great -great -great -Grandfather George, would today be the richest dominion of his Empire...
Scores of German "journalists," far outnumbering those of any other nationality, live in Great Britain, but relatively few have ever been seen at a press conference or been known to ask for an interview. British newspapers have long buzzed with reports that there are 500 Nazi agents...
...those 14 years, milk-drinking, early-to-bed Lou Gehrig, son of a German-born Manhattan janitor, became famed as Base ball's Iron Horse. He played in 2,130 consecutive games (besides seven World Series and hundreds of exhibition games)-a record that no baseballer has ever approached or perhaps ever will.* Far more important than his record for durability, however, is Gehrig's batting record: 1,991 runs driven in (100 runs or more a year for 13 years), 2,721 hits (1,192 of them for extra bases), 1,886 runs (including 494 home runs...
...children are given thorough physical and mental tests before they are sent to homes for trial periods before legal adoption. Few children are ever returned to agencies. Religious ties are respected, and often children of mixed blood are supplied upon request. Four-year-old Al Jolson Jr. is half-Irish, half-Jewish, to match his foster mother and father...
Opening punctually, as many an earlier planned exhibit did not, American Art Today turned out to be the biggest show of its kind ever put on. From some 25,000 entries, judges chose 1,214 examples of painting, sculpture and the graphic arts. The roster of well-known names-Thomas Hart Benton, Eugene Speicher, Adolf Dehn, George Grosz, Edward Hopper, Charles Burchfield, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, William Zorach, Peggy Bacon, many another-is long, but incomplete. Some (Georgia O'Keefe, Jose de Creeít) did not submit anything. Some (Frederick Waugh, Robert Brackman) were turned down...