Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tanned Man. First thing Franklin Roosevelt did last week when he got back to Washington from his yachting holiday off Florida was to peep under Louis Howe's oxygen tent and say hello to his ailing No. 1 Secretary. Second thing was to summon to the White House Speaker Joseph Wellington Byrns and Chairman Robert Lee Doughton of the Ways & Means Committee to confer about getting the Social Security Bill passed by the House...
...wailed Prisoner Roiderer, his face ashen, eyes bulging and lips aquiver as he hysterically clasped, flopped and wrung his hands. "I am a hare's foot-a scared rabbit-but I am a good German. I am no spy! When I was going from Munich for a little holiday in Switzerland an official called me 'You coward!' and then he said. 'Confess-or we will make you confess...
Eleanor Holm Jarrett is the handsomest girl athlete in the world. At 19, she was Olympic backstroke champion. Last week she took a holiday from the night club where she was appearing in the floor show with her husband, Crooner Arthur Jarrett. In group photographs of girl swimmers, Eleanor Holm Jarrett can be identified as the one with the best-looking bathing suit, the darkest fingernails, the broadest smile which, through all the vagaries of her career, has remained attractively inscribed upon her face as if it were a trademark. After playing about the pool and being photographed for three...
...McComb this spring. Last week nearly half the population jammed their little baseball park to watch the Giants thrash the Cleveland Indians, 4-to-2. Next day, the Giants played the Indians in another exhibition game in Hattiesburg, Miss, where they were greeted by a brass band, a half holiday. After five balls had been pitched in the first inning, a downpour ended the game...
...States of America; Designer John Fitch who built four successful steamships before Robert Fulton; Songwriter Stephen Collins Foster ("Nelly Was a Lady"); Inventor Charles Goodyear (vulcanization of rubber); Mrs. Sarah Josepha Buell Hale, editor of Godey's Lady's Book, sponsor of Thanksgiving Day as a national holiday, poet ("Mary Had a Little Lamb") ; Author Joel Chandler Harris (Uncle Remus Stories); Colonel Robert Green Ingersoll, agnostic lawyer, lecturer, debater; Explorer Elisha Kent Kane, who pioneered part of Peary's route to the North Pole; Composer Edward Alexander MacDowell ("To a Wild Rose"); Inventor Robert McCormick (harvester); Novelist...