Word: fourths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week this "German Fourth of July" offered occasion for much singing of Deutschland Ueber Alles, many shouted "Hochs!" and a few sporadic Communist riots...
...schooled at Ithaca, where he got his start scrivening for the undergraduate Cornell Sun. But he would have been popular with the New Yorkers no matter where he was born. Smooth-faced, graying a little, just 50, his personality is of the kind that makes trade organs like the Fourth Estate lay it on thick about "integrity," "ideals," "sincerity," "inspiring confidence and loyalty" in explaining his "romantic" career. For three years he has been fighting Publisher Hearst over an Associated Press franchise in Rochester, and though victory is not yet with him, the Southern Tier is stronger than ever...
...Pont de Nemours & Co. consolidates the Du Pont family investments in industrial enterprises, including a one-fourth interest in General Motors. Their half year net earnings were...
Commander Cosulich, whose ancestors had been shippers on the Mediterranean for centuries, was close to Dictator Mussolini, brought Italy up to fourth place among the world's shipbuilders. His own shipyards at Monfalcone, near Trieste, are the greatest in Europe. Recently he inaugurated the Trieste-Turin commercial airplane service; brought Henry Ford's automobile assembling plant to Trieste in the face of local opposition which feared such competition...
...Duchess of Fenton (The Chaste Diana), Lady Hamilton (The Divine Lady) and Poet Byron (Glorious Apollo). Her periods billow out like fussy, over-embroidered crinolines when she is in her role of sentimental raconteuse, but the historical reconstructions are superb-Playwright Sheridan scratching his wig for the fourth act of The School for Scandal; George III and Queen Charlotte reading their favorite divines under the lindens at Kew; and Perdita, fluffed in swan's-down, waiting for the flushed royal moron who brought her low; Perdita, at last a wanton, having her final fling in a tiffany petticoat...