Word: seene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Elizabeth. Her Royal Highness was permitted to assume, in token that she has "somewhat grown up" at twelve years, her first appointment: president of the new Children's League of the Princess Elizabeth of York Hospital for Children in Shadwell, a grimy London slum. The little princesses were seen last week in new spring costumes of delicate powder blue, and Queen Mary appeared with every article of her attire, even stockings, in exactly the same color...
...nonmilitary feature of the birthday was to be seen at the German Chancellery, into which flowed truckloads of gifts from ecstatic admirers. Der Führer received tons of flowers, hundreds of cakes, a set of phonograph records of Anschluss speeches, a set of foreign translations of Mein Kampf, a lion cub, the 500,000th Daimler-Benz car, a portrait of the late General Erich Ludendorff and numerous cradles, baby carriages, and babies' clothes "from the provinces"-i. e., from provincial families still unaware that the man who so often appeals to German mothers for more and better children...
...Evans believes in good bodies, declares that a man who develops a "monstrous girth" commits a social crime. Three weeks ago he debarked nine of his cheek-blown, beef-eating Betteshanger boys in Manhattan, had them show U. S. citizens proper methods of breathing and exercise. Last week, having seen as well as shown, Headmaster Evans prepared to ship his brood back to England, paused to observe that the average U. S. boy was superior in physique to the English boy. But he added a warning to both English-speaking nations. Far more fit than the boys...
...seen all the great players," said Powell, interviewed yesterday, "I saw Babe Ruth the first time he came to Boston and I saw Lou Gehrig take Olly Pipp's place at first base, and lots of others...
...Harvard Men" in bold-face type caught the Student's eye as he idly thumbed his Herald-Trib. Richards Watts, Jr. was expatiating on a play he had just seen, apparently against his will, at the Bayes Theatre. The play, it seemed, dealt with Harvard men, and this stalwart son of Columbia (Class of 1921) was venting his spleen by mild witticisms on the Mother of American Education and Endowed College par excellence...