Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kentucky was shocked again and General Denhardt's troubles were over forever. Free on $25,000 bail, on the eve of a second trial, he was walking with an attorney on a dark street in Shelbyville. Three men got out of a car, fired a fusillade of shots. Seven bullets struck Denhardt, and he died almost instantly. Within a quarter hour the sheriff had taken Mrs. Taylor's three brothers-Jack, Roy and E. S. Garr-into custody...
Since all of these ladies travel in pretty much the same social league, each learned with horror that she was likely to see the dress that she had just paid at least $350 for not once but seven times. To shrill objections over the telephone Mme Schiaparelli last week had nothing whatever to say. Taking advantage of this sudden publicity, however, style pirates in Manhattan's garment centre set to work duplicating the model not seven but 700 times...
...freshmen and after only a year's study was removed from college by a severe attack of malaria. Afterwards he became a newspaper reporter, and although he took time out to finish his education at Harvard, he continued to hold jobs in newspaper offices and publishing houses. Seven years ago he published his first scientific article in the Atlantic Monthly. Today, a small, ruddy, cheerful, white-haired man with a southwestern drawl he has a less effulgent reputation than any one of half-a-dozen British luminaries but he is probably one of the ablest popularizers of science writing...
Ultimately the picture he has acted in sets cinemaddicts atremble, but Terry Rooney has already thought himself a failure, married Rita, and fled to the South Seas. Returning a famous man, he signs a contract obliging him to fake bachelorhood for seven years. The strain tells first on Rita, who returns to Manhattan, second on Terry, who has been linked to Stephanie (Mona Barrie), the studio siren, in publicity gossip. A large plane winging eastward shows Terry on his way back to Rita, the band and Manhattan. Another good man has broken through the lucred shams of Hollywood...
Lippmann's two years with able Editor Cobb taught him much, left him well fitted to take over the editorial page of the World when Cobb died at 54. For the next seven years Lippmann's editorship made and kept the World?, editorial page the brightest liberal lighthouse in U. S. journalism. With the death of the World in 1931 Lippmann seemed checked in midcareer. When he was offered and accepted a place in the columns of the arch-Republican Herald Tribune, which hired him not as an editor but as an independent columnist whose opinions the publisher...