Word: sevening
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When a person wants to bet in a pool he writes the promoter for the week's selection. He usually has a choice of six or seven different combinations, may bet anything from a penny to a pound. There are three cardinal requisites for an "investor" (the word bettor is shunned): He or she must be over 21, must not "invest" with cash, must never visit the promoter's premises. To circumvent England's Betting & Lotteries Act, all transactions are on credit, cash is sent the following week. If an investor fails to follow up with cash...
Broad-shouldered Oliver Carmichael was self-educated in the schoolroom and library built by his father, an Alabama farmer, for the family's seven boys and three girls.* At 15 he was ready to go to the University of Alabama. He went on to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, interrupted his studies to work for Herbert Hoover's relief commission in Belgium, to go to India, take a fling in General Smuts's East African Army. He was twice mistakenly arrested as a spy. When he arrived in Alabama to enlist in the U. S. Army...
...Carmichael children spent an aggregate of some 60 years in college; all seven sons have doctors' degrees...
...Seven years ago, in Washington's Pan American Union, diplomats blushed almost as red as the Union's macaw, Lorito, when that platitude-hating bird garnished a radio speech by President Herbert Hoover with a raucous Bronx cheer. Recently Lorito's obscene outcries (in Spanish & Portuguese) were silenced forever when he was done to death by David, the Union's gaudy green parrot. Last week, the parrot-murderer, possessed of Lorito's testy spirit, interrupted Secretary of State Cordell Hull, who was giving a speech to the Union (on Davis Cup drawings), with a Bronx...
Meanwhile, the seven remaining Lockheed 14Hs that belong to Northwest Airlines have been corrected in the airlines' St. Paul shops. Nonetheless, B. A. C. last week suddenly cracked down, suspended for 15 days Northwest's license to carry passengers because of failure to maintain equipment up to required standards. This was a slap in the face for Northwest Airlines, which until this crash due to a structural failure, had the enviable record of eleven years' flying over difficult mountain terrain without one fatal accident...