Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...William Fourth; and Victoria...
...week it appeared possible that in 1936 the U. S. appetite for preposterous endurance might take an even more eccentric form: the Roller Derby. In Chicago 25 young men & women were roller-skating in circles around the Coliseum. They had been doing so since Christmas Day. It was the fourth Roller Derby held in the U. S. since last August. Crowds averaged...
...charged her with driving 32 m. p. h.. carrying an expired license. Next Socialite Sportswoman Mrs. John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, was picked up for driving on the wrong side of a bridge at 40 m. p. h. While Mmes Harriman and Whitney awaited trial, the police stopped a fourth speeder, collected $8 from Professor Anton Lang Jr, of Georgetown University, son of the one-time Christus of the Oberammergau Passion Play...
Swiss Artist Rivier is even more. He is the theatrical critic of the Gazette de Lausanne. He has decorated the Protestant Church at Auteuíl, France, has completed 1,000 square meters of murals for Lausanne University. For his fourth advertisement Artist Rivier took Jacques Louis David's famed portrait of beauteous Mme Recamier reclining on her chaise longue, put a naked 16-month-old baby on her knees, had her holding out a full nursing bottle...
...that he was no poet, comparing himself to Don Quixote, the Spanish-American War aroused him to "the Dionysiac frenzy and impassioned tenderness" that he considered essential for true poetry. When the Spanish Fleet at Santiago was destroyed; Admiral Sampson made the "boorish jest" of calling the victory a Fourth of July present to the U. S. people. Santayana wrote Spain in America as an answer. The poem is a lament for Spain's "sadness and dishonor," a moving and eloquent cry for a marriage of the two cultures, the spirits of the North and South...