Word: margarete
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Same day, their mission completed, the Duke and the Donor sailed off in company with the Trophy for Europe. As the Normandie steamed down the harbor, no publicity-minded maiden swung in the rigging. But, holding forth in the saloon was Margaret Sanger, on her way to India to spread her gospel of Birth Control...
BRIGHTON-Osbert Sitwell and Margaret Barton-Houghton Mifflin...
Sharing none of Thackeray's prejudices, Osbert Sitwell and Margaret Barton, in their new history of Brighton, find George IV, while not exactly an ornament to Britain, at least no unmixed Victorian monster. His streak of family insanity "had softened down to a curious, harmless and most effective eccentricity." He was frequently drunk, but no more so than most English aristocrats of that period. His delusions, that he had defeated many butchers and bakers in fistfights, that he had commanded at many a battle, including Waterloo, were merely symptoms of the same madness that had made his old father...
...Barton write long and authoritatively on the beauties of the romantic architecture he sponsored, a taint of snobbishness and affectation is discernible in their accounts. Despite Brighton and its patron's love of art, Thackeray was probably more nearly right about George IV than Osbert Sitwell and Margaret Barton...
Convicted. Noel Charles Scaffa, 46, best-known U. S. private detective (specialty : jewel retrieving); of perjury in testifying before a Federal Grand Jury concerning his part in returning $185,000 worth of jewels stolen in Miami Beach from Mrs. Margaret Hawkesworth Bell (TIME, June 10); in Manhattan. Maximum possible sentence: 15 years in prison, $6,000 fine...