Word: merchantable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...better times, because of America's trend to American ships America's most famous liner S. S. Leviathan proudly sails for Europe June 9." Prospective passengers were asked to sign a clip coupon beginning: "I am a booster for the further development of the American Merchant Marine...
...considerable edge over their challengers, whose combined ages were almost twice as great. The U. S. team went into the sabre event leading 34-to-30. Sabre had been generally conceded to the home team. But to their amazement, Captain Guy L. G. Harry, a port wine merchant, led a slashing British attack which took four of the first five bouts, brought the visitors into the lead 38-to-36. Then the U. S. team rallied and brought the score to 44-to-42. Dr. John R. Huffman, Yale graduate student in chemistry who lost his U. S. championship fortnight...
...making the Derby the racing classic of the American continent also has the distinction of having seen every Derby ever run. In 1875, 14-year-old Matt Winn sat in his father's grocery wagon and watched Aristides win the race. Grocery Boy Matt Winn became Matt Winn, merchant tailor of Covington, Ky. Twenty years ago, Tailor Matt Winn became Colonel Matt J. Winn, racetrack manager. In 1914 he upped the Derby's purse, steadily began to ballyhoo the race into a social and sporting extravaganza. Now, 73, Colonel Winn as president of the American Turf Association operates...
...went to Manhattan, published a novel (Laugh & Lie Down) which impressed critics. He has had seasoned, well-written book reviews in The New Outlook, The New Republic, the New York World-Telegram. Now in Boston, he is working with Lincoln Steffens, famed libertarian and muckraker, on a biography of Merchant Edward A. Filene...
...nine years in Russia, Mexico, Spain, the U.S. Dos Passes' angle is never strictly orthodox, from either camp's point of view, but his camera is candid, though tilted perceptibly to the left. His tale of the Red Army soldier, the counter-revolutionary surgeon and the Persian merchant will not be accepted by Communists as propaganda for their cause: supporters of the Spanish Republic (which Observer Dos Passos, with a straight face but an oblique eye, calls ''The Republic of Honest Men'') will not welcome his unveiling of last year's uprising...