Word: marked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...midwinter golf tournament, a Rumanian premier was being assassinated, the Metropolitan Opera was opening, Jockey Jack Westrope was riding his 300th winner-they had been flying around in circles to set a new women's endurance record of 237 hr. 42 min., 41 hr. better than the old mark, and to advertise Outdoor Girl cosmetics...
...Manhattan's St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie, Pastor William Norman Guthrie was celebrating the "Christian Office of the Children of the Zodiac," a memorial service for the late Astrologist Evangeline Adams. As the congregation sang a hymn, Dr. Guthrie lit a Eucharistic candle. His surplice sleeve brushed against a row of lighted candles, flared up. The congregation stopped singing, resumed again as Dr. Guthrie, with little help, slapped out the blaze with his hand...
...morning and ending at 4 o'clock when the paper was "put to bed," Editor Howe spent his evenings writing a novel which he called The Story of a Country Town. When publishers refused his book, Editor Howe printed it himself, a page at a time. Mark Twain compared it to the works of Russian realists of whom Ed Howe had never heard. A bleak, bitter biography of himself and his itinerant evangelist father, The Story of a Country Town was a precedent for the school of U. S. fiction whose ablest current practitioner is Sinclair Lewis. More than...
...York tabloid Daily Mirror read: "If I were king I would throttle the swift talker who got me to consent to serve on the board of governors for the planned Fleetwood Beach Club at Long Beach. N. Y., just because Eddie Cantor. George Jessel, Bugs Baer. Mark Hellinger and others were so gullible. The enterprise, it appears, is being worked along the lines of another 'racket,' to which I am opposed and I hope others won't invest in the damb thing because our names are being prostituted...
This celebration is to mark a silver anniversary, not of one great impresario but of a mammoth corporation, with $285,000,000 working capital, with 75 affiliated and subsidiary companies, with 350,000 stockholders, 125,000 employes. To the corporation and not to individual executives goes the credit of making one third of all the world's automobiles on its twenty-fifth birthday. A similar change has come over Ford. Henry Ford still rules Ford Motor Co. but he no longer is Ford Motor Co. He says "Yes" and "No," but Edsel Ford, Charles Sorensen, Peter Martin, William Cowling...