Word: rowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...title from the last day in Romains' logbook, in Paris in 1933. Citizens yawn, rise, go to work. A girl visits her lover. An Englishman blushingly discusses sex. A priest talks about politics. Poincaré is ill, the U.S. debt is unpaid, Hitler is kicking up a row in Germany, and 25 years ago is 2,500,000 words away...
...evening. Dr. Thinh took down a French medical book from a row in his small private office, opened it to a chapter on hangings. Then he took a piece of thin copper wire, twisted it into a neat noose. Next morning, Buddhist Thinh, in whose religion suicide is the supreme reproach against unjust criticism, was found dead...
Today ruddy-faced, blue-eyed Joseph Ridder, 60, runs the family's Ridder Publications, Inc. from a paneled office in the old World building, on Manhattan's Park Row. Victor, his invalid twin, divides his time between Duluth and New York. Bernard, a retired poet, runs the St. Paul papers, and eight Ridder sons, back from the war, are spotted at strategic points of the empire...
...Garden City, Kan., John Lavore, a passenger on a snowbound bus, struck up a conversation with Passenger Thelma McLean, talked to her two nights in a row, next day married...
Both men played in the 1929 contest their Sophomore year, and Booth missed a field goal attempt that would have tied the Crimson, Harvard winning 10 to 7. Wood made it two in a row over Booth the following season, with the Crimson scoring a 13 to 0 victory...