Word: knowne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long periods buried in the mud, not eating, hardly breathing. Physiologist Homer William Smith of New York University, recounting in Natural History last week the case of the canned lungfish shipped to Chicago, said that lungfish have been observed to live four years without food?the longest authentic fast known to scientists in all the animal kingdom...
Most famed U. S. jumping Jill is Mrs. John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, a spirited, devil-may-care rider who has been winning blue ribbons on the horseshow circuit for 15 years. Before her marriage to Croesusrich young Whitney in 1930, Mary Elizabeth ("Liz") Altemus was well known in the hunt country around Philadelphia. After acquiring the 2,200-acre, million-dollar "Llangollen" estate near Upperville, Va., Liz Whitney became the most glamorous horsewoman in the U. S. Her drawing-room gum-chewing, social-worker hairdo, haphazard clothes were aped by many lesser socialites. Her riding technique became the very pattern...
...Maria Magdalene Sieber, better known as Marlene Dietrich, cast her first vote as a U. S. citizen in Beverly Hills, Calif. Asked how she voted on Ham & Eggs, Marlene said: "When I became a citizen they told me my vote was sacred-and for that reason I don't want to tell how I voted...
...ways to have any truck with newfangled sandbags and gum-papered windows, Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, 91, eldest living daughter of Queen Victoria, stuck to her 98-room Kensington Palace apartment in air-vulnerable London. Once known as the "Royal Rebel" for marrying against her mother's wishes, for smoking cheap gaspers, for many another unregal trick, she condescended to such precautions as dark blue window-blinds, an underground tunnel near the kitchen...
...famous poem representing a marriage of two minds, and only a few famous works of fiction-the novels of Erckmann-Chatrian, the fairy stories of the brothers Grimm. But in the theatre, which is always the product of many hands, collaboration has long and royally flourished, producing such well-known partnerships as the Elizabethan Beaumont & Fletcher, the Victorian Gilbert & Sullivan, the contemporary Hecht & MacArthur...