Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said a Frenchman who attended the meeting of the five foreign ministers in London that agreed on the new Council: "We did not get exactly what we wanted-an unfettered assembly that could use public opinion to obtain European federation. That would have covered about one-fifth of the way toward federation. What we got in London is about three-quarters of that one-fifth...
Inside the church, the din and cries were so great that the words of the marriage ceremony could scarcely be heard in the fifth row. Roman oaths flew back & forth between displaced guests and uninvited rabble. The excitement spread to the guests. With sighs of ecstasy, they rose from their seats and pushed out into the aisles. Some of them even struggled with formally clad ushers who tried to push them back. During the ceremony a movie-man, seeking a close-up of the bride & bridegroom, rudely nudged aside elegant Monsignor William Hemmick, who was officiating...
...Fifth Avenue, with a fine view of Central Park across the street, sits a 66-room red brick Georgian mansion, one of the largest and most lavish houses in New York City. Across the street, the late Banker Otto Kahn's Florentine stone palace is now the Sacred Heart Convent for girls; a block up Fifth Avenue stands Banker Felix Warburg's six-story home: it is now the Jewish Museum. Farther down Fifth Avenue, workmen this week started tearing down Financier Thomas Fortune Ryan's ornate 30-room mansion...
...Nov.11, 1932, ex-Convict Roy Frank Godbey and four pals pulled off a robbery in Ringling, Okla., and bungled it. They got only $9. A few days later Hoodlum Godbey was captured. Prosecutor Earl Pruet, a vigorous and sarcastic lawyer, pointed out to the court that Godbey was a fifth offender, and demanded a stiff sentence for him. Godbey got 35 years, and swore to Pruet: "I'll kill you if it's the last thing I ever...
Last week, Laurance Rockefeller, who meanwhile had upped the stake of himself and his brothers in McDonnell to $400,000 and one-fifth voting interest, had further proof that his gamble had paid off. In Muroc, Calif., McDonnell gave the public its first look at the Voodoo, a single-seater, twin-engine plane which the Air Force hopes to use as a combination fighter, fighter-bomber or bomber escort...