Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Detroit and the State of Michigan turned St. Valentine's Day into "Eddie Guest Day." The occasion roughly commemorated Edgar Albert Guest's 54 years of life, his 40 years in newspaper work, his 25 years of writing popular verse. Seven hundred Detroiters jammed into the Statler Hotel for a testimonial dinner. A troupe of radio actors broadcast dramatized episodes of Rhymester Guest's life. And Motormaker Henry Ford's mouthpiece, William J. Cameron, spoke for thousands of Guest addicts in & out of Michigan when he declared...
...asked for help. One had a broken leg; Dr. Mudd set it. Later that day the horsemen galloped away. The injured one was John Wilkes Booth. For his services, Dr. Mudd found himself suspected of being party to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. He was court martialed, with seven other suspects, sentenced to life imprisonment in Fort Jefferson, on the dry Tortugas, off the southern tip of Florida. He tried to escape, failed, was put in a solitary dungeon. When yellow fever killed the prison's doctor and scores of its 1,000 convicts, Dr. Mudd volunteered his services...
...Gockrell, who also milked the former world's champion milk producer in 1920 when the old record was set. To that cow Carnation erected a statue. Born nine years ago, Daisy was sired by Carnation's Matador Segis Ormsby, rated the greatest bull that ever lived. Twenty-seven daughters have each tested better than 19,000 Ib. of milk and 700 Ib. of butterfat. Five have topped 30,000 Ib. of milk, and seven have records of more than 1,000 Ib. of butterfat. Average for U. S. cows is about 5,000 Ib. of milk...
...first seven lines of an acrostic continuing through Florida East Coast Railway, this verse was written by one J. B. Killegrew and included in a souvenir booklet issued in 1912 during the festivities that marked the opening of the so-called "Key West Extension," the 128-mile over-water rail route to the southernmost city in the U. S. It was dedicated, as was virtually everything else on that occasion, to Henry Morrison Flagler, most brilliant of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil partners. Having lavished his brains and his oil wealth on a Florida railroad and Florida hotels...
Captain Ed Gerry of the Crimson opened to the scoring by a brilliant goal which as quickly followed by a tally from the ballot of Skiddy Von Stade. After this, the Blue riders dominated the evening's play, especially in the last chukker when they ran up seven goals to two for the editors...