Word: ills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ellis Colvin. 46. WTA client on duty in a gravel pit at Sycamore, Ill., last week came the industrial accident which a million U. S. taxpayers have feared was inevitable among WPA's hordes of shovel men: while leaning at a comfortable incline with his legs crossed and both hands grasping the shovel's handle to make a pillow for his chin, Ellis Colvin lost his balance, fell heavily, fractured his wrist. Shovel Man Colvin promptly applied for Government compensation...
Last week, My Days,-* an unclouded selection from Mrs. Roosevelt's columns, appeared in book form. Since her first column, on Dec. 30, 1935, she has not missed a day, even when she was ill with influenza. On only three occasions, none of them Mrs. Roosevelt's fault, did her copy reach United Feature Syndicate's office late. It is written the day it is sent in, appears in most newspapers next day. United Feature confines its editing to facts and grammatical construction, never touches her opinions. Mrs. Roosevelt gets about $10,000 a year from United...
More remarkable than the fact that one of the most active gadders in the U. S. can find time to turn out a daily column is the fact that in doing so she has consistently avoided making serious boners. Without being maudlin or saying an ill word of anyone, she generally manages to say what she means. But most gratifying to millions of women readers who write her thousands of letters is Mrs. Roosevelt's ability to make the nation's most exalted household seem like anybody else's: "The White House is crowded with guests these...
Married. Guy Stillman, 19, son of Chicago's Anne Urquhart Potter ("Fifi") Stillman McCormick; and Nancy Holbrook, 17, his neighbor; in Dundee, Ill...
...appalling floy floys, shim shams and swizzle-swipes which are the lingo of swing. Four hundred extra policemen marveled that no one was hurt. It was, in the words of Chicago Daily Newsman Gene Morgan, "the strangest manifestation of youthful exuberance perhaps ever witnessed since the Middle Ages' ill-fated Children's Crusade...