Word: iii
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Action by British Labor spent itself last week in a sudden burst of strongly suppressed riots. But the policy of British Labor turned historically toward revolution in Leicester, a rusty old red brick English city on the Soar (into which upright Leicesterians hurled the corpse of detested King Richard III). In 1841 Leicester gave birth to Thomas Cook's first "Cook's Tour"-from Leicester to Loughborough (some 10 mi.) and back. Today Leicester busies herself chiefly in making women's stockings. Last week her proletarians welcomed with lusty cheers the 32nd Annual Congress (convention...
...FRANCIS J. PRYOR III...
Busy little Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria and his sloe-eyed Italian Tsarina were completely dumbfounded, as was everyone else in Sofia last week, when the capital suddenly went Communist...
Ashley Dukes, the author, conceived a subtle theme. The program pointedly indicates "Time: Summer 1800." This of course, is the tip-off. England at that moment was discarding the last cluttering tentacles of monarchy under the insane George III, and feeling the strength of democracy, peeking over the shoulder of France, so to speak, in order to learn a few more of the battle cries of freedom. A nobleman, Hugh Buckler; with his man, John Buckler; and one of the Prince's paramours, Miss Cowl, with her maid, Marion Evensen; come together in a deserted country inn. Here...
...their maximum 2,700. Timers clocked the flying wedge of smoke and spray at an average of 124.91 m. p. h. for two statute miles-a new world's record, 5.16 m. p. h. faster than Kaye Don's time in Miss England III last spring on Loch Lomond. Climbing out of his boat, the old silver fox of U. S.-speed-boating, Gar Wood, defender of the Harmsworth Trophy, smiled contentedly. He had kept a promise to his country and himself...