Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eulogize him. But when the Senate met at noon and his colleague, Mrs. Caraway, presented a resolution for a committee to supervise his funeral, 15 Senators rose one after another to pay spontaneous tribute to Joe Robinson. At the White House President Roosevelt, still in bed when the news was brought to him, rose on his elbow and dictated: "In the face of a dispensation so swift in its coming and so tragic in the loss it brings to the Nation, we bow in sorrow. A pillar of strength is gone, a soldier has fallen with face to the battle...
...persuade her wealthy benefactor to buy her a chinchilla wrap, one of the softest, most beautiful, most expensive of furs, also one of the least durable, one of the rarest. A chinchilla collar today costs $2,000, a coat $30,000. Chorus girls should have cheered last week at news that the U. S. chinchilla supply is about to increase...
...marriage was not entirely news to Mae West's fans. Two years ago a female WPA researcher flipped a marriage card out of Milwaukee's registry which attested the wedding of one Mae West to one Frank Wallace, April 11, 1911 (TIME, May 6, 1935). The Mae West then married was 18, would today be 44. Promptly Vaudeville Hoofer Frank Wallace popped up in Manhattan to boast that he was the man. But she would have none of him. "I've gotten a lot of bunnies on Easter," she retorted in her throatiest, breast-heaving contralto...
...praise, leaped suddenly into the best-seller class. The reason for this sudden popularity was a curiosity to find out how much truth lay behind the scandal which forms the theme of the story, and if the scandal occurred at Exeter. U. S. readers, while immune to this news interest, will still rate Cathedral Close a competent, well-characterized story giving a vivid authentic picture of an environment little less unique than English royalty...
...pieces. But it has never occurred to him that a child might turn up. Servants get hold of the first clues. With these and Silburians' devious skill in putting two & two together-the Canon's increasing nervousness, physical resemblances, further note-comparing by returned English tourists-the news soon gets around. After hearing the Canon"s full confession (a mixture of contrition and lyricism about nude bathing in a mountain stream), Dean Mallinson makes a heroic effort to spike the gossip. For a time he thinks he has suc- ceeded. But when the gossip starts again, the Cathedral...