Word: proved
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lawyer Mary Belle Spencer, who brought up her two daughters "to do as they please," has long been a stock figure in Chicago's news. Once she had Fan & Bubble Dancer Sally Rand arrested when her bubble burst. During the Hauptmann trial she circularized a long fantasy to prove the alien carpenter innocent. Recently Mrs. Spencer split with her doctor-husband and he went to live with their older daughter, Mrs. Mary Belle Wright, 19. Last week, shy little Dr. Spencer died, and his wife again made news. Marching to her daughter's home, she demanded the dead...
Besides planning and giving work in the manner to which it has become accustomed, WPA last week started something new; buying $10,000,000 worth of men's & boys' clothes to give not only to its "clients" but to any persons who can prove "need," an idea sold to Administrator Harry Hopkins by President Sidney Hillman of Amalgamated Clothing Workers (TIME, June 20). Bids were in and samples received from 1,800 manufacturers. At the Manhattan office of the U. S. Treasury's Procurement Division, WPAdministrator Corrington Gill inspected long racks of garments including tuxedos and racy...
...consequence: in the effort to remain consistent, the Hays organization has failed to censor material which it passed in 1929, although the characters involved scarcely meet the moral requirements of 1938's purified cinema sex life. Best sequence: Pettigrew calling on Daisy at the stage door to prove to his cynical messmates that he really knows...
...Lehman are both expiring, the death of Senator Royal S. Copeland fortnight ago left the most populous State's three biggest political jobs to be filled at once. Because Governor Lehman was drafted against his will to strengthen the New Deal ticket in 1936 and then did not prove as big a vote-getter as the President, the assumption was that he would step aside in favor of another gubernatorial candidate, possibly popular Bob Wagner. While Franklin Roosevelt's lieutenants pondered what would be the best political line-up to meet this unexpected situation in a key State...
...wish to prove," he began, "that my ship, by introducing new principles, will revolutionize and give new impetus to the shipbuilding industry. . . . I hope it will be obsolete within two years. That is the way we build airplanes. No sooner do we complete them than they are obsolete. That is good. That is progress. Today there are too many yachts that outlive their owners...