Word: fronted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Editor Ewald's crusade was good for his paper. The Press bought out the morning Register and Henry Ewald became editor of both papers. Last fall he went after the lottery racket, spread the front pages of the Register and the Press with pictures of lottery tickets that Mobile's police said they could not find...
...gowns' sizes, colors, materials. Black is for liberal arts graduates, white or grey for high school, blue for normal school, pink for music, lemon for library science, silver-grey for oratory, maize for agriculture. Harvard has its own code, uses varicolored crow's-feet on the front panels of gowns instead of velvet hood trimmings to distinguish separate orders of graduates...
...first sequences is the most thorough- going physical transformation since the days of Lon Chancy. Believe it or not, Mr. Chips once courted a pretty girl in Vienna, and married her. And he was headmaster once, during the War, when all the able hands were at the front. Believe it or not, he did have children-as he swears on his deathbed, "thousands of them"-and schoolmastering at Brookfield was no mean way to spend a life...
Through a grey drizzle, the shivering crowd watched Johnstown take the lead, just as expected. Down the backstretch he kept in front. But it was no runaway, like the Derby. Gilded Knight was on his heels, stride for stride. Coming into the homestretch, Challedon, who had been trailing the leaders, flew past them in a splatter of mud, crossed the finish line a length and a half-in front of Gilded Knight. Mighty Johnstown, with mud in his eye, strolled in next to last, almost ear to ear with last-place Ciencia, only filly in the race...
...patient and, when he was through, took a proper precaution. He did not put the infected scalpel with the sterilized instruments in his bag. He wrapped it in a piece of paper and put it in his pocket. Then careful Dr. McCreedy went home and, opening his front door, looked down into the laughing face of his 19-month-old daughter, Nancy Irene. He swung her up and clasped her in his arms. That was a fatal move. The infected scalpel in his pocket pierced the child's abdomen. In spite of immediate attention, two days later Dr. McCreedy...