Word: fourthly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mayor James Michael Curley at a wedding party for a boyish, promising lieutenant named Maurice J. Tobin in 1932. Last week as James Michael Curley, fresh from the Governor ship of Massachusetts and an unsuccessful campaign for the U. S. Senate, tried to capture his Boston bailiwick for the fourth time, his prediction came bitterly true...
...which Candidate Tobin until recently worked for as a divi sion manager. Charged with the duty of deciding for his Back Bay votes which among the contestants was the least of four evils, Republican Leader Henry Parkman, Jr., who in the last mayoral election came in a poor fourth with 29,000, finally settled on Candidate Tobin. That many another anti-Curley Bostonian had done likewise appeared when young Maurice Tobin rolled up 105,212 votes to old Jim Curley's 80,376, left Candidates Nichols and Foley trailing surprisingly far to the rear...
...keep faith with audiences who have grown to expect a modicum of Yankee Doodle from Actor Cohan on any stage. the President closes the show with a typical Fourth of July speech about the U. S.. "A country where, if things are wrong you can get right out and talk about them. And . . . there aren't many countries like that left in the world...
...recently flew 10,000 sheep to collective farms over 342 miles of the Turkmen Republic's desert. Canada, serving millions of square miles of lake-dotted, forested terrain above the "civilization line," annually handles 25,000,000 Ib. After the U. S., South America probably stands fourth, but with its 60,000 miles of airways, its immediate air cargo potentialities are as great as any other land...
...much-publicized Lady Wright of Durley, one of the most famed horsewomen of Europe, who shipped to the U. S. a string of four horses trained by lady trainers, and handled by lady grooms. Lady Wright had fair cause to look down-in-the-mouth after winning only one fourth-place white ribbon in five days of competition...