Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Carlos Mendieta, President of Cuba by the grace of Army Chief of Staff Fulgencio Batista, last week made bold to postpone Cuba's long-promised elections once more, this time from March 3 to "some time in August." It was more than Cuba's volatile young voters could stand. A combined strike of students and teachers at Havana University was promptly made political, with a demand for the resignations of Mendieta, Batista and two members of the Cabinet. The popping of bombs in Havana suddenly accelerated to a steady sputter. The strike spread swiftly down through Cuba...
...zoomed the runways and landed at Newark ten minutes later. Elapsed time: 11 hr. 34 min. 16 sec. Average speed: 212 m.p.h. Immensely pleased at beating famed Pilot Doolittle's record by 25 minutes, unfamed Pilot Andrews grinned to newshawks: "It was duck soup. . . . Wait until I tell Grace...
...must to all women, Death came last week to May Etheridge, 42, former Duchess of Leinster. Her grace vanished, her beauty gone. Her Former Grace was found sprawled across a bed in Brighton with a bottle of poison by her side. Since 1930 she had been living on $25 a week provided by the Duke's family with the understanding that she would not return to the stage and would make no effort to see her son. the present Marquess of Kildare and heir to the Dukedom...
Naming the cook as corespondent, His Grace obtained a divorce in 1930 and shortly thereafter married the wealthy daughter of Mrs. Joseph Henry Patterson of Manhattan. Living on her little allowance, May Etheridge bore the Duke no ill will...
...third class team, which won the Massachusetts Championship on Mt. Grace two weeks ago, has as leading contenders Harold T. White, Jr. '37, Thomas Motley, 2nd '38, Frederick S. Bigelow '38, William F. Loomis '36, and Henry S. Parker...