Word: fewness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The attached, received a few days ago, is, to me, a good example of what has come to be known as the British sense of humor.
As to the mention of the half-empty houses: both legitimate theatres in Milwaukee are huge 1,600-seat houses, and with very few exceptions, no attraction that plays Milwaukee can boast of even half-empty houses. A half-capacity audience in Milwaukee is a distinct compliment to a play...
Home was the word last week, home to Tallahassee, Tonopah, Cheyenne, home to Havana, Ill., Searcy, Ark., Atherton, Calif., Tacoma, Wash., Jasper, Ala., Yankton, S. Dak., Clovis, N. Mex.-home to the 531 communities, hamlets, cities and wide places in the roads where dwell the 531 Congressmen and Senators of...
In 1892, exuberant Henry Ashurst was turnkey at the Flagstaff, Ariz, county jail. In 1904 he interrupted his law studies at University of Michigan long enough to marry the young Irish widow who managed Flagstaff's weather bureau. In 1912 he was elected to the U. S. Senate, has...
Last week, modest, 65-year-old Mrs. Ashurst had a few paragraphs to herself in the newspapers which had devoted columns to her famed husband. At her home in Washington, after long illness, Mrs. Ashurst died. The Senator, for this occasion, found no words adequate.