Word: lettered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...challenge came from the Reverend Edward Lodge Curran, President of the International Catholic Truth Society, who said in his letter to Hicks, "I am opposed to any form of dictatorship in the United States, whether it be a dictatorship from the right or a dictatorship from the left...
...word or two over the radio in behalf of fat people. Her fat son had been taking a lot of joshing-people used to say that when the circus came to town they couldn't see a thing if he got there first. If Mr. Lord liked her letter, could she come in a "bedded car," and should she bring her own vittles...
...Lord liked her letter, all right. It was right up his alley. Mollie arrived in a parasol of a beaver hat, a blousy frock with petticoat ruffles showing at the bottom over high-buttoned shoes. At her neck was a ruff of fluffy lace, setting off a face of infinite fiftyish sweetness. Lord read her letter over the air, let Mollie put in her own plea for fat boys. Next day they took her to the big stores, let her ride the escalators, bought her $50 worth of odds and ends, packed her off home...
...especially eager to see the performance of Joan Tozzer, 17, defending champion, and Audrey Peppe, 20, who lost the title last year by the heart-breaking margin of 1 10 of a point. Joan Tozzer, blueblood, blonde daughter of Harvard's Anthropology Professor Alfred Marston Tozzer, is a letter-perfect skater of school figures (which count two-thirds in determining a national champion). Audrey Peppe (pronounced peppy), petite vivacious niece of Beatrix Loughran, national figure-skating champion in 1925-26-27 is famed for her spectacular free skating (self-selected routines, which count one-third in determining a champion...
...Yard: a happy old Italian who hoards pound notes against a return to Palermo, scorns wasting two or three of them on fire insurance; an ex-Captain who lost all his nerve under fire, all his possessions in a fire; a cabinetmaker, who keeps forgetting to mail a letter to an insurance company taking out a fire policy; a profiteer, who wants to build a cinema on the Yard's site, wishes a fire would save him the trouble of razing it; a wistful bum who pillages the Yard garbage bins with a candle in his shaky hand...