Word: featly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Issue. To become nationally known, rule No. 4 instructs: Identify yourself early and firmly with a national issue. Herbert Hoover's unique feat of getting elected on "American individualism" without ever letting his stand on any national issue be known, is not likely to be duplicated soon. Highly recommended as an issue this season is any distinct subhead of the Economic Situation. Senator Wag-ner of New York, himself hopeless as a candidate, has pre-empted the Unemployment subhead in the Senate for the time being but might be persuaded to share it with the right Democrat. His friend...
...About the neck of Captain Edward Vernon Rickenbacker, 40, at Boiling Field, D. C. President Hoover hung the pale blue ribbon of the Congressional Medal of Honor, highest military award, acclaimed him "ace of aces of the American forces in the World War." Medalist Rickenbacker's feat: attacking single-handed seven enemy planes, downing two. (His full record: 26 planes shot down...
...small, stubby-fingered hands last week President Gerardo Machado y Morales had the largest, finest private collection of live apes in the world. Rich, eccentric Senora Rosalie Abreu of Havana was the first human successfully to rear a chimpanzee born in captivity. Excessively difficult, this feat has been performed only seven times, and of these seven records, four go to the credit of Cuba's famed "Monkey Mistress." Some years ago this good lady's sister Martha, tolerant of chimpanzees, died. For reasons of their own the Monkey Mistress's son Pierre and daughter Lilita moved...
...There probably is no doubt that Lord Thomson thought it would be a striking, dramatic feat to accomplish a flight to India [where he was to succeed Lord Irwin as viceroy] and come home in safety while the Imperial Conference was sitting." Air Vice-Marshal Hugh Caswell Tremenheere Dowding said Lord Thomson had told him not to let his judgment be swayed by his (Lord Thomson's) eager ness to be off; but he showed a memorandum from Lord Thomson insisting upon a take-off early in October...
...Saki complete in one sizable volume is an event in the book-world. People who are already familiar with these unique sketches need only be told this inexpensive edition is well printed and that its seven hundred odd pages in some way have escaped from developing bulk--a rare feat. Others, to whom Saki is a meaningless word, can not hope to appreciate the importance of the occasion until they discover for themselves what Saki really means...