Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Saturday night for nothing. Sunday morning Franklin Roosevelt was back at the White House. That evening at the White House he held a formal council of war with the general officers of his legislative army, revealed to them his strategy for ending a Congressional session that after seven months had outlived not only its normal span but its political usefulness...
Shrewd Franklin Roosevelt never let his Bonus marchers get the Washington spotlight. Quick as querulous, down-at-heel veterans began shuffling into Washington, he began shipping them off to special relief camps in the South. In eleven such camps last week?seven in Florida, four in South Carolina?some 2,500 derelicts were being housed, fed, paid $30 to $45 per month...
...they come to you with pages and articles torn out. Any article about crime or prison is torn out. No detective stories are allowed. Your letters come to you censored and retyped. Can't get the originals. Out of a three-page letter you get maybe six or seven lines...
Some words Carol knows: lemonade, candy, ice, cream, lollypop, cigar, cigaret, tobacco, pants, pajamas, locust, katydid, Mae West, come, up, see, me, some, time, buzz, rhumba, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, nine, ten, seventeen, hippopotamus, lavatory, belch, sneeze, Jesus, pop, eye, goofy, flush, toilet, groceries, fruit, nuts, nertz...
...Gatty as navigator, Wiley Post made his first round-the-world flight in 1931 in 8 days 15 hr. 51 min. Two years later, embittered over his failure to get rich, he took off on his second round-the-world flight-alone, without even a parachute or life-raft. Seven days 18 hr. 49 1/2 min. later he was back in New York. Airmen the world over agree it was the outstanding individual feat in aviation history, second to none...