Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Leaving their baby son Prince Edward with his nurse in England, Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Kent flew to Paris for a seven-week holiday on the Continent...
...Herbalist Jerome Bannigan (alias George Andrew McMahon) was arraigned as "McMahon" last week under the Treason Act of 1842, enacted after shots had been fired in the general direction of Queen Victoria. He faces seven years' imprisonment if convicted of having "willfully presented near to the person of the King a firearm "with intent" to break the public peace...
...proud prospect offered to Chicago last week by the Arlington Park Jockey Club's Founder John Daniel Hertz. Discussing the track's policy and progress, Mr. Hertz announced that since 1929 Arlington Park has repaid all but $700,000 of the $5,000,000 debt it incurred seven years ago. When the $700,000 is written off, Arlington Park, only non-profit race track in the U. S., will put its surplus into plant improvements, richer prizes. When prizes reach a reasonable limit, Chicago racing will turn over $500,000 a year to charity...
...still as keen as ever. That Denverites, for all Scripps-Howard might do, continue to like their blatant, cocksure Post is evidenced by the fact that that sheet with its red headlines and its frank sensationalism has more than four times the weekday circulation of the News, nearly seven times its Sunday circulation. Scripps-Howard editors came & went with dismal regularity on the News without materially changing this situation. Last year it was Charles B. McCabe. Last month, it was Charles E. Lounsbury, a Denverite, who was given an indefinite leave of absence. Last week it was Forrest Davis, crack...
...officer except "When do we dock?" Of special interest to sea-travelers is a section which does for the world's merchant marine what Jane's Fighting Ships does for the world's navies. Consisting of accurate scale drawings of the principal merchant vessels of the seven seas, it enables any landlubber to identify any distant liner from the huge Queen Mary to the little Polish Batory...