Word: seatful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bucharest 13-year-old Crown Prince Mihai roamed the palace scratching matches on the seat of his pants, a trick learned from a Rumanian Consul recently returned from...
...years the Howells and the Grays have battled fiercely. In 1924 Editor Cohen marched boldly into a Klan-dominated State Democratic Convention, marched out with Publisher Howell's job as national committeeman. The election of Howell-backed Talmadge to the governorship forced the Journal into a political back seat, widened the No Man's Land between the publishers. So savagely did the Journal attack Governor Talmadge last summer that that "cracker" politician angrily referred to Editor Cohen as "Jake the Jew,"* urged his supporters to cancel their Journal subscriptions, switch to the Constitution. Crowning outrage to the Grays...
...dark. Bowen Tufts slipped into his overcoat, put on his hat, stepped out of doors. He walked across the lawn and entered the garage, shutting the doors tight behind him. When the motor of his Packard sedan settled down to a quiet hum, he climbed out of the front seat, walked to the rear of the garage. Carefully taking off his hat, he lay down on the cement floor, a foot from the purring exhaust. At seven in the morning the maid found the motor still running. Bowen Tufts was dead...
Equally hysterical, a Russian news photographer in a third plane that was flying nearby nearly throttled the pilot of his plane before being knocked, half conscious, back into his seat...
...Cathedral attended by many a judge and lawyer. In New Orleans, nine descendants of Sir Thomas More listened to the canonization by radio, envious of a tenth, Bernard Gonzales Carbajal, merchant and real estate operator, who took himself and wife to Rome, sat importantly in a reserved seat in St. Peter's, heard Pope Pius XI pronounce his ancestor and Cardinal Fisher saints and solemnly invite all England to '"return" to the Church of Rome...