Word: mayoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President entered his car and rode 140 miles over the trestles built by the late Rail Tycoon Henry M. Flagler to lace the Florida Keys, converted by PWA from a defunct railroad into a $3,600,000 motor highway. At Key West, which WPA saved from indigent desuetude, Mayor Willard M. Albury and Admiral William Leahy sat beside the President as he delivered two backseat radio talks in rapid succession...
Proud of the tempest he had started, Mayor Houde got in the last word: "They say I'm crazy. Well, just let war come and we'll see who's crazy...
...small-town weekly earns about $2,400 a year, including income from his job printing. If he lives far out on the range, like Editor Charles Laflin of the Covert, S. Dak., Advance, he must often take turkeys and fence posts for subscriptions. He is likely to be chosen mayor, basketball referee or blood donor at any moment. He works 60 to 80 hours a week, and rarely reads a book. And above all, he has to watch what he prints. A Rockland, Mass, editor was driven into bankruptcy because he told how a townslady had slipped bottom-first...
...then for the rest of the show they gallivant with various admirers whose attentions go considerably beyond candy, books and flowers. One Pretty Maiden goes in for blackmail; another enjoys watching her aged suitor tumble down a flight of steps; a third is kept by a pal of the Mayor's; a fourth gets a venereal disease from her lover and shoots...
...opera is expected by its sponsors to surpass the production of last year. General manager of the performance is Lawrence F. Ebb '39, while Courtland Canby 2G will conduct the music and Alan S. Downer 5G will direct the acting. Miss Katherine Schroeder with the assistance of Miss Helon Mayor, Radcliffe '38 will put the dancers through their paces...