Word: py
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...collection. When Lady Slane in turn hands over her unwelcome bequest to charity and a museum her children are furious but her own equanimity is restored. When one of her great-grandchildren comes to see her, to thank her for what she has done. Lady Slane is perfectly hap py, dies at just the right moment. The Author. Victoria Mary ("Vita") Sackville-West writes with such urbanity and aloofness, with what seems like such an inward eye of aged solitude, it is hard to realize that she is only 39. Like her diplomatist husband. Harold Xicolson...
Last fortnight's obituaries of H. P. Re of Coldwater, Mich, said he had "the shortest name in the country." Immediately protests were made by Ed Py of Newcastle, Ind., Fin Ax of Indianapolis, J. Ur of Torrington, Conn., etc., etc. Then newshawks undertook to find out who really had the shortest name in the land. Baltimoreans dug up the name Tau-chun I, onetime Chinese medical student there, but they had forgotten that in China surnames come first. Winner last week seemed to be Aaron A, first name in the Chicago city directory...