Word: months
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...connected with Boss Pendergast it was a stinker. The indictment blackened some clouds already hanging dark over the Boss ever since Missouri Circuit Judge Allen C. Southern began to root out gambling and vice in Pendergastland (TIME, Feb. 6). The Boss had known the blow-off was coming: last month his nephew Jim Pendergast and Police Chief Otto Higgins tramped up & down Washington trying to find some one to call off Maurice Milligan. The day the indictments came down, Culprit O'Malley attended a three-hour mass in Baltimore. But as righteous Attorney-General Murphy announced last week...
Already the Yale meet, only a month away, is looming large on the horizon for Jaakko Mikkola's and Bill Neufeld's charges, who to date have been forced to run, jump, and fling in weather more fitted to skates and kites than to spiked shoes...
...Frostproof, Fla., fruit growers worried by a five-month drought sought out 67-year-old Rain Maker Lillie Stoat of Oxford, Miss. Her method (which, she says, has never failed in over 400 trials) : find a likely-looking body of water, sit by it several hours daily until it rains. For four days, on and off, she sat by Lake Reedy. Then it began to pour...
Wolfe. Announced for publication next June is the first section of Thomas Wolfe's posthumous novel, The Web and the Rock, Next month's Scribner's will carry a 15,000-word Wolfe novelette, The Party at Jack's. This month's American Mercury has Wolfe's Portrait of a Literary Critic, a mock tribute to a corkscrewy reviewer. Next issue of The Virginia Quarterly Review will carry Wolfe's A Western Journey, diary of his trip to the Northwest last summer, taken from pencil notes written at night, or scribbled...
...thoroughly democratic spirit in which suggestions rule the House committee, and an excellent dining room presided over by Mrs. DePinta, who knows everybody's name by the end of the first month, are the most distinctive characteristics of Winthrop House...