Word: roome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lively Womacks thoroughly enjoyed themselves in court. During recesses the women changed coats and hats in the rest-room and then changed husbands to confuse witnesses. Barrel-chested Son-in-Law Miller and youthful Son-in-Law Felis, both professional wrestlers, took a night off during the trial to wrestle in nearby Hannibal, Mo. where Miller earned $20. But when the troupe realized that the 13 counts on which each was held, carried aggregate maximum jail sentences of 65 years and $75,000 in fines, they giggled less. Son-in-Law Miller offered to wrestle Assistant U. S. District Attorney...
Into the oak-paneled board room marched the regents once again, listened to a letter from Governor Benson requesting that they right an old injustice. "We cannot suffer a precedent to stand, under which, during periods of hysteria, honorable teachers are humiliated and dismissed in disgrace because their views happen not to coincide with the views of those in power." With only one dissenting vote-that of Fred B. Snyder, president of the board in 1917 and now-the board rescinded the 1917 dismissal, voted Professor Schaper $5,000 as salary for the year 1917-18. Because...
Squirming in sequins on a Hollywood dressing-room chaise longue, Mae West made her first public statement on her notorious Adam & Eve travesty (TIME, Dec. 27; Jan. 24). Of NBC and Advertising Agents J. Walter Thompson she said: "They were no gentlemen. They let a lady down...
...still suffering profoundly by the consciousness of having caused so much trouble and annoyance to Conde Nast, who was not merely my employer, but the dearest, kindest and most understanding friend. ... I feel as a man might feel who fell, unwillingly, from the window of a high-up room and yet kept his consciousness. ... I don't know how it happened and I am wildly tempted to call fate some very ugly names, if I had not just taken a sacred vow never to use gutter words again...
Last autumn, before moving his 18 children, 13 grandchildren and divers in-laws from their drought-blighted farmstead in North Dakota to a 19-room house at Columbia Falls, Mont., Antone Hoerner killed & cured enough hogs to make sausages and ham to carry them through the winter. Shortly before Christmas nine well-fed Hoerners simultaneously took sick at their stomachs, vomited, developed fever. Doctors thought that they had eaten apples from which poisonous insecticide had not been thoroughly washed. As more Hoerners took sick with the same symptoms, doctors suspected typhoid fever. But by the time ten-year-old Daniel...