Word: opener
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...politically excited citizens. . . . Midst the joyous shouting of the crowds and while flags were flying in the southern breeze, the Plaintiff and his loyal aides ambitiously distributed the match booklets to the spirited tempo of patriotic airs. . . . Gradually these staunch voters of Tallapoosa County so assembled had occasion to open their booklets of matches to light up their cheroots, and as each did so, the booklet was immediately and indignantly closed and concealed from the eyes of the womenfolk or younger persons thereabouts...
...large section of the world's diplomats believe that five weeks ago Chancellor Hitler made a feint in Czechoslovakia's direction when he moved 170,000 troops into "summer barracks" nearer the border. He had just Nazified Austria while French and Germans stood by with open mouths. Their mouths were still open when the Reich's soldiers began ominously moving around on their side of the Czechoslovak border. In this crisis the Czechoslovakian Republic, the keystone of democracy in central Europe, marched 400,000 troops up to its side of the border and the first German over...
...Golfer Ralph Guldahl, winner of the U. S. Open fortnight ago: the Western Open championship, second ranking open tournament in the country; for the third year in a row; with a score of 279, including a six-under-par 65 on the last round; at the Westwood Country Club, St. Louis. Runner-up was Sam Snead with 286. Champion Guldahl is the first golfer in the 38-year history of the event to win the title three times in succession...
...prayed in their dungeon while in the next room hard-bitten sailors cursed and killed themselves. When they were released her husband died. Widowed Elizabeth Seton became a convert to Catholicism. Eventually, as the result of persecutions by her onetime friends, she fled Manhattan, went to Baltimore to open the first Catholic parochial school, then to Emmitsburg, Md. to conduct the first American convent for the Sisters of Charity. Throughout her short life Mother Seton kept up a journal and a voluminous correspondence, with a remarkable literary quality which Author Feeney likens to Elizabeth Browning...
...This inexhaustible national resource is the inspiration of many a popular song (Nobody's Sweetheart; I Got Plenty of Nothin;'), of many a Negro spiritual and folksong. But it has been passed up by most U. S. poets. The first one to crack this national theme wide open, to taste all its implications and to manage to spit them out in undeviating American language, is Edward Estlin Cummings...