Word: second
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Patterson . . . found only one man . . . to confront him, he aimed a terrific blow at that individual; but to his great surprise this was readily parried, and the counter blow, à la Yankee Sullivan, fell upon his left eye with such force, that, followed by a second, the desperado was thrown heavily into the street...
Creston's nearly 9,000 residents do not consider it "tiny." It's the second largest town in the entire southwestern quarter of Iowa (Council Bluffs the exception) and Crestonians are proud of its up-and-comingness. Crestonman Elmo Roper of FORTUNE Survey needs take no poll to know that. And you'll hear more about Creston if Crestonman Frank Phillips is successful in his present quest for a rich oil pool beneath the famous bluegrass (and corn) fields of this area. Creston even had three daily newspapers when Crestonman Gerald P. Nye was behind this very...
...suite on the second floor of Washington's Mayflower Hotel constitutes the legation of the Kingdom of Albania. The drawing room is dominated by a talking-machine with a Gargantuan, oldfashioned, master's-voice horn. Presiding there since 1926 has been cultured, convivial Faik (pronounced "fah-eek") Konitza, a sixtyish bachelor who reads 13 languages, has an earned M. A. from Harvard University and numbers among his friends beauteous Ann Corio, famed Italianate strip-teaseuse...
...Times and Telegraph & Morning Post obediently printed no word of the speech. The Daily Express carried the speech for one edition, then wavered and cut it out altogether in a second, in a third merely hinted at it. The Daily Mail first quoted Lord Stanhope's words, then withdrew the quotes but not the story. Only the Liberal News Chronicle decided to publish story and quotes. The news was a shock to the public, an alarming indication of how close the Government believed war might be and how unheralded its arrival...
...Dick and Harry are never elected. Electors are not the French people but the politically sophisticated National Assembly (Senate and Chamber of Deputies). Last week, after Albert Lebrun agreed to run for a second seven-year term-pressed to do so as a gesture of French solidarity against the dictators-the result was a foregone conclusion. Surprising, however, was the amount of opposition which developed...