Word: months
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Neighbors of Edward Frances Murphy on the outskirts of San Jose, Calif, were surprised, one day last month, to see him chopping down the trees and shrubs around his two-room cottage, surprised next to see him move all his belongings out of the house and padlock the doors, surprised next to see smoke curling out of the building. Firemen came in time to save the framework but Edward Murphy's cottage was as good as destroyed. When police arrested him for violating the arson law, he was indignant. The nearest house was 100 feet from his. Having...
...record book goes, the Crimson sextet should take the ice as slight favorites to win. Although both teams lost their games to Toronto, McGill and Dartmouth, the Hoddermen beat Princeton twice and Queens once while the Elis were routed by Queens last month and dropped both of their games to the Nassau...
Figures released by the Hygiene Department show the unusually large number of students treated this month. 344 students were treated in February; while only 262 were treated at the same time last year...
Transamerica's boss, old Amadeo Peter Giannini, having retorted that it was simply a matter of accounting theory, began fighting SEC with all the wrath his hot Italian blood could generate. In Washington last week, after a month of legal fencing, Lawyer Rogge haled Mr. Giannini's personal secretary to court. She refused to talk. So did three other Giannini intimates. "This is the most outrageous case of contumacy I have ever seen," bellowed Lawyer Rogge, obtaining a recess until March...
...other hand, The Green Fool, the autobiography of a sort of Irish Jesse Stuart, is one of the most plum-Irish volumes in a month of Sundays. Born in Mucker (corrupted Gaelic for "good pig-raising place"), County Monaghan, Patrick Kavanagh was "a bit of a lazybones, a bit of a liar and a bit of a rogue." He quit school at 12, worked on farms, joined the Irish Republican Army, learned poaching and desultory banditry, went to all the weddings, wakes, funerals, became highly learned in Mucker legend, superstitions, gossip, cunning...