Word: savely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Arthur Conan Doyle was sitting in his garden near Southampton, England, with his family (wife, two sons, a daughter), when flames suddenly burst from the roof of his house. For an hour, local firemen, 100 villagers and the Doyles labored to save books and manuscripts. An old part of the house was consumed, a new addition saved. No Sherlock Holmes was needed to detect the cause: a spark on the old dry roof...
Last week the Welsh Royal National Eisteddfod was held amid the bowers of Sefton Park in smoky Liverpool, most populous with Welshmen (75,000) of any city save London. From all over the world went humming Welshmen, chiefly of course from the mine-scarred valleys of Wales. There were more than 500 from the U. S., including the famed Anthracite Choral Society of 172 mixed voices from Scranton, Pa. Two girls went all the way from California with their grandmother, aged 74. Others journeyed from Australia. They were welcomed by their most distinguished countryman, David Lloyd George. Then rose...
...shall not subscribe. It gives me a feeling of pleasure to wend my way to this newsstand or that and purchase it weekly. Might save a few cents by subscribing, but it's more fun to buy it hebdomadically...
Marshal. "Accidentally" shot by the host whose wife he has seduced, an actor reveals the attempted jealousy murder. The wife, to save the husband, denies her love though her actor is apparently dying...
Many a Manhattanite last week began to think that putting savings in a sock was perhaps not such a foolish idea. Just as state officials were making a final report on last February's City Trust Co. failure (TIME, Feb. 25), their statements shared headlines with first investigation of Clarke Bros., another Manhattan banking firm which last fortnight closed its doors. First reports put the Clarke failure at $4,000,000, gave depositors hope of getting 25 cents on the dollar. Later it seemed likely that the failure was for $5,000,000. that 5 cents on the dollar...