Word: everly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...States and the birth of a new grandson ("Little John" Boettiger) in Seattle, had seen and been seen by people all the way from peon pecan-shellers to her son Jimmy's boss, Samuel Goldwyn. On this trip, she said, she had encountered less Isolationist sentiment than ever before. Said she: "There are still people who think that we can cut ourselves off from the rest of the world, but more people are less secure in this belief...
...Harry Lloyd Hopkins ever becomes Iowa's favorite son, Iowa can thank his daughter. He announced last week that he would presently re-establish himself as a resident of Grinnell, la., which he left 27 years ago after graduating from the college there. A Hopkins from Iowa would be much more available politically in 1940 than a Hopkins from the District of Columbia or New York, but his friends swore that his stated reason for replanting his roots in corn country was the true one: to give his daughter Diana, aged 6, a permanent home, permanent friends...
...World War, the "D" notice is often used on news of warship movements, and was prominently used in 1935 during the Ethiopian crisis, when newspapers were ordered not to print the departure of the British fleet to the Mediterranean. No "D" or any other kind of order, however, has ever been issued forbidding the report of a responsible Cabinet Minister's speech; in fact, such an order seemed a clear infraction of freedom of the press...
...French President has ever completed a second-seven-year term. The only one who has ever tried served two years. Last week President Lebrun indicated that he would stay in office only so long as the present international crisis lasts. Gallic wits predicted that in that case he would have to serve his full term...
...between the legs of a Basque knight named Íñigo de Oñez y Loyola, breaking his right shin and tearing his left calf. For the Roman Catholic Church, beleaguered by the Protestant Reformation, that shot was providential. Íñigo, laid up in his castle (and ever after afflicted with a limp), began thinking pious thoughts which led him, in 1534, to form a "flying squadron," the Society of Jesus, in the front ranks of the Church's Counter Reformation against Protestantism...