Word: landed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Site of the hot-dog luncheon was a lately acquired hilltop on Franklin Roosevelt's own land, adjacent to his mother's. Here, he revealed, he is going to have something he has long wanted: his "dream house." To newshawks he showed its shape, outlined in the woods with stakes and string. Contracts were let last week to Adams, Faber Co. of Montclair, N. J. Architects: Franklin Roosevelt and Arthur Tombs of Manhattan and Atlanta (who laid out Georgia Warm Springs Foundation). Cost: $15,000. Name: "Dutchess Hill." Style: Dutch colonial. Material: native stone (from old fences). Rooms...
...Earl of Plymouth, chairman of the Sub-Committee of the International Committee on Nonintervention, early last week succeeded in pushing through that body Britain's long-discussed plan for quarantining the Spanish War in Spain. Soviet Russia finally acquiesced. Main features of the plan were closing of land frontiers, greater vigilance of ships going to Spain, stationing of neutral observers in big Spanish ports, counting of foreigners fighting on either side, eventual withdrawal. There was a chance that this agreement actually was an agreement-for three days. Then, as has often happened in both factions, the Soviet Union soon...
Modern surgery gave one Alexander Peter, Hungarian peasant, a bright idea when he wanted to mortgage his 320 acres. Legally that was impossible because the land was entailed for the successive benefit of any children Peasant Peter might beget before 1952. But Farmer Peter wanted to hypothecate some of the property to buy farm machinery. And although married, he had no children, wanted none, expected none. To convince the court which had jurisdiction of his farm that he was going to have none, he had a vasectomy performed on himself. This was only temporary emasculation, ruled the judges, and might...
...William's frigate arrived in Boston Harbor from a two-year cruise. Frantically impatient to see his mother, William jumped into a small boat, pulled furiously for the land, leaped ashore, rode day and night, by carriage, coach and wagon, to Emmitsburg. He ran the last two miles, up & down hill, only to find, when he arrived at the convent, that his tuberculous mother had been six months dead...
...afternoon last week emerged a snug, grey-hulled motorship with red, white and blue striping on her two buff funnels, gay bunting flapping from her halyards. She was the 18,673-ton Oslofjord, new $3,000,000 flagship of the Norwegian America Line, on her maiden voyage to the land Norse Leif Ericson previewed some 938 years earlier. Leif the Lucky's 75-foot ship was a Viking man-o'-war with a single candy-striped sail and places for 35 men. The 588-foot Oslofjord is a businesslike luxury liner with four 4,400-h.p. hydraulic-geared...