Word: live
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...They live in row houses one block long, keep their windows closed and shades down to prevent the entry of dust . . . and sunshine. Their main items of diet: potatoes, cabbage and squash let them grow beyond the limits of plumpness. They mistrust science and its balanced meal and vitamin instruction, are susceptible to goitre...
...election returns in the case of Mrs. John Boettiger, the President's daughter, for she also went journalistic after Mr. Roosevelt's first election and, within the last year, above all the thousands of professional newspaper women in the United States who need jobs by which to live, has been singled out as peculiarly qualified for sub-editorship on one of Mr. Hearst's newspapers." Mrs. Boettiger is women's editor of the Post-Intelligencer and wife of its young publisher. The question titillating many a newspaperman was whether Publisher Boettiger did not read what...
Near Holmquist, S. D., more than 50 residents of a rural mail route took down their mailboxes, causing service to be suspended. They were protesting the appointment of Tom Coin as carrier. He does not live in the post office district to which he has been appointed...
...Henry Wadsworth Longfellow had some of her poems published in the Atlantic Monthly. In 1885 she married Edward Wharton, Boston banker, whom she later divorced. Her first fiction, The Greater Inclination appeared in 1899. In 1906, like her friend and idol, Henry James, she went abroad to live. Three years later she wrote her famed New England tragedy, Ethan Frome. In 1920 she won the Pulitzer Prize with The Age of Innocence...
...elephant since Phineas Taylor Barnum's Jumbo has had a legitimate claim to the distinction of being more famous than all others of the species. And no world-wide tabulation is kept of ages of elephants, which live to be about 120. But Babe, aged more than 100, may well have been the oldest in captivity. And as for fame, certain it is that she trouped with Jumbo, worked for and outlived Showman Barnum, the Ringlings, and generations of circusgoers...