Word: seven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Seven Greek cities claimed to be the birthplace of Homer. Almost as many in the U. S. claim to be the birthplace of the Republican party. When the party came into being in the early 1850's, slavery was the prime issue. When last week the town of Ripon, Wis. (population 4,000) attempted to establish its title to "founding" the Republican party 75 years ago, Prohibition, in the form of Dry raids by U. S. agents, overshadowed the news of the celebration...
...long-haired Bernarr Macfaddcn founded the Graphic, hired Writer Winchell on a seven-year contract as columnist, dramatic critic. Starting salary: $100 a week, all of which he earned by night...
...racetrack tipster who spotted winning horses with 75% success would be the greatest tipster in history. But a drama critic who forecasts with 75% correctness the financial result of Broadway plays, is only a mediocre seer. Last week Variety published its annual box score of Manhattan theatre critics. Seven of twelve men from the leading dailies made scores of .75 or better...
...across the House came an immediate answer? decisive, sudden bullets flew six times from the blue-steel barrel of an automatic pistol coolly aimed by Deputy Punica Ratchitch. Each bullet found a man and brought him down, wounding four, killing two. Paul Raditch, nephew of Stefan and father of seven, was one of those who died. Stefan Raditch crumpled with a bullet in his stomach. Fifty days later, in Zagreb, Croatian Capital, he died. That was last summer. To Croats, still, the name Raditch means Hero and Martyr. They gather in thousands to cry "Zhivoi Raditch! (Hail Raditch!)." Impatiently have...
...Thirty-seven professors and instructors, many of them of national reputation, come from other colleges and universities this year to teach in the Summer School. In addition, 80 members of the University teaching staff will serve throughout the summer. Among the outstanding scholars are Professor Hunley W. Herrington, of the University of Syracuse, who will lecture on the Elizabethan Drama and Poets of the Nineteenth Century, and Professor Albert Feuillerat, of the University of Rennes, who is this year Exchange Professor at Yale, who will lecture on the Romantic Poets, and also on Shakespeare's Development as a Dramatic Poet...