Word: noting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ship in the Gulf of Mexico May 1, 1937 - and the word was "shall." Last week the President spoke from the House rostrum his grave regret for that signature of approval - the first time since he became Chief Executive he has thus publicly admitted a major mistake. This conciliatory note was typical of the surface serenity of last week's Washington scene...
...Hollywood Mrs. Eugene Pallette, wife of the froggy-voiced comedian, left a note pinned to the door of her penthouse saying she would return in two hours. Obliged to her for the information, burglars found ample time to make off with $2,000 in jewelry and cash...
...iron cot in a concentration camp not far away lies the once-famous, still beautiful actress Emmy Ritter, convalescent and condemned to death. There is little chance that any friend knows she is there. After her trial she managed to scribble a note for Mark, her son, and give it to Fritz, the surly old servant of the Ritters who had been brought to testify. But Mark is in New York, and Fritz may not have dared or cared to mail it to him. Emmy no longer has influential friends; she has lived for 23 years in America. There...
...same day Mark, having located the town by the postmark on his mother's frightened note, goes to interview the Commissioner of Secret Police. The Commissioner, soft, dreamy, epicene, watches Mark's pleading as if it were a boring play, tells him to come back Wednesday for information about his mother. Mark does not know that Emmy is to be executed Wednesday morning. But then Mark meets the Countess and his real excitement begins...
...note was first sounded by Willard Learoyd Sperry, Dean of the Divinity School and Chairman of the Board of Preachers, when he said, "We are living in one of the overcast days of the world...