Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This was written on an expensive letter card, Mayfair-postmarked, and three days later Mrs. Simpson received an identical card in the same typewriting which read: "Had you been living 200 years ago, means would have been found to rid the country of you. but no one seems to possess the courage required to order you back to the U. S. A. where marriage is a mockery, so it has fallen to my lot as a patriot to kill you. This is a solemn warning that I shall do so." In numerous other notes polysyllabic English writers informed Mrs. Simpson...
...Simpson's twice-divorced first husband, Commander Earl Winfield Spencer U. S. N., lay bedded last week in San Diego, Calif, after a hunting accident. Said he: "She is a most attractive woman and has one of the strongest characters I have ever known any person to possess. She is a lovely person, intelligent, witty and good company. 'Stimulating' is the word which best describes her charm. Our marriage lasted eight years, and we parted twelve years ago. I think Wallis Simpson is a wonderful woman. In whatever future she may choose-into whatever places...
Because responsibility and a knowledge of Harvard life which Freshmen cannot possess are necessary for the construction of editorials, this board of the CRIMSON is open only to men of the Sophomore class. The lightness of the work in comparison with the routine of the News Board is balanced by an insistence upon completeness of material and a well-informed point of view. As a result, time that would on the News Board be spent chasing stories must be devoted to research into the workings of the University and discussion with the higher-ups of the possibility of improving...
...last week arrived an issue of the Sydney Sunday Sun and Guardian with half a page devoted to pictures of the koala and a plaintive screed by Noel Burnet. "Few American visitors," wrote he, "would fail to give everything they possess to take back to the States a real live 'Teddy bear,' but, alas, that cannot...
...attending doctors, nurses and ambulance) will be accepted. Among 25 who had paid last week were Tennessee's newly-reelected Senator Nathan Lynn ("Nate") Bachman, Federal Judge George Caldwell Taylor of Knoxville, Mrs. William Stanley, 30-year-old wife of a University of Tennessee entomologist. Participants must also possess a State hunting license (resident $2, nonresident $15), may bag one boar each. No pigstickers, the Tennessee huntsmen may carry rifles of .25 calibre and up or automatic shotguns, take their chances on foot or on horseback. Automobiles are barred...