Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Instead, he fell dead in a hotel lobby with his drummer's case in his hand." By last week, when John Taylor was inaugurated as president of the University of Louisville, students and professors had come to realize that he had his father's indomitable optimism. In nine months in office (before being officially inaugurated) drawling, 41-year-old John Taylor has drummed up more trade, money and headlines for the university than any president before...
...Button out-darted Switzerland's Hans Gerschweiler to win the men's world figure-skating championship. He had already won the European and Olympic titles at Prague and St. Moritz. Defending Champion Gerschweiler did a pratfall during an Axel Paulsen in the free-skating. Three of the nine judges rated Button's performance 5.9 (perfect...
Taxes were so high, said Carpenter, that a raise in salary from $50,000 to $100,000 a year gives a man an actual increase of only $12,000, and leaves him a spendable total of $38,000. If the salaries of Du Pont's nine executive committeemen (the top management) were completely eliminated, said he, it would add only 9.3? per share to the company's earnings (some $113,000,000 in 1947). Carpenter then checked his present salary ($175,000) against what he earned 25 years ago ($78,570). He found that present taxes leave...
Died. Caroline Lacroix, Baroness de Vaughan, seventyish, second wife (morganatic) and widow of Belgium's King Leopold II; in Cambo-les-Bains, France. Young daughter of a Parisian concierge, she became the mistress of 65-year-old Leopold, bore him two sons in nine years, wed him in 1909, four days before his death...
...breath Runyon could bid the world be gay ("This [is] the best show in town") and sonorously reproach its gaiety ("There were men . . . and women . . . standing chin-deep in . . . this bloody trial and giving some offense to high Heaven, it seems to me, by their very presence"). When nine-year-old Lorraine Snyder enters the courtroom, Runyon deftly massages the hearts of a million mothers ("She was, please God . . . a fleeting little shadow . . . and she stood looking bravely into [Justice Scudder's] eyes, the saddest, the most tragic little figure, my friends, ever viewed by gods...