Word: north
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Magna Charta. Henry VIII, a Tudor, acquired a kingly record for marriages. Elizabeth, another Tudor, made England mistress of the seas. Charles I, a Stuart, lost his head in a palace courtyard. George III, a Hanover, kept his pig-head and lost his country the richest half of North America. Victoria, a Saxe-Coburg, became Empress of India...
...power plant was functioning again. A Harvard graduate named Theodore White went to his room in the Canadian-French mission school. The Associated Press correspondent stepped out of his office. Suddenly, out of the leaden sky, at 6:30, 27 Japanese bombers swept in on Chungking from the north...
Taking Lead Belly north with him to Manhattan, Folklorist Lomax gave him a first shove up the ladder by presenting him in a concert before radio scouts, theatrical agents and pressmen. Lead Belly prospered, bought himself a new guitar, drawled his rhyme-sprouting improvisations in concert halls and over the air. In 1935 he sent for his best girl, swarthy Martha Promise, a Shreveport, La. laundress, and married her in one of the "shoutin'est" suburban weddings Manhattan's Negro colony had ever seen...
Married. Ellery Sedgwick, 67, longtime (1908-38) Atlantic Monthly editor; to Marjorie Russell, fortyish, daughter of Champion Russell and close friend of the late Mrs. Sedgwick; at North Ockendon, Essex, England. In January 1938 Editor Sedgwick visited Franco's Spain, then wrote a gentlemanly newspaper apologia for Fascist Franco...
Gaining a three-three split in the singles but dropping two out of the three doubles matches, the Varsity netmen went down to a 5 to 4 defeat at the hands of the powerful University of North Carolina squad on the Divinity courts yesterday afternoon...