Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Seven o'clock came and Huey Long began to twit Senators about dinner engagements, then to tempt them with tall talk about food...
...last week Waiting for Lefty had been banned in seven cities on one ambiguous pretext or another. In Boston the police ran the New Theatre Players out of two houses, finally locked up four actors on charges of "profanity and blasphemy." After winning the George Pierce Baker Cup at the Yale Drama School for its performance of the play, the Unity Players were forbidden in future to act Waiting for Lefty anywhere in New Haven. It took a concerted move by University liberals to smash the ban. When the Collective Theatre tried to put on Waiting for Lefty in Newark...
...major Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes prizes of $148,500 each on the Epsom Derby, seven were won by Americans. Most preposterous winner was a Brooklyn woman named Anna Hyman, wife of the proprietor of a picayune leather company, who has made a practice of investing $20 in every sweepstakes she has heard about, with no success whatever. Informed that Bahram had won, Mrs. Hyman revealed that she had sold a half interest in her ticket for $40,000. Said she: "I'd certainly like to travel on that big ship, Normandie...
...Dean refused to play in another exhibition game. Result: $100 fine and seven-day suspension for refusing...
...teammate Joe Medwick came to blows in front of their bench. Accounts of how the quarrel started varied. Result: a severe reprimand and threat of a $5,000 fine for Dean; an impudent prediction by Dean that the New York Giants will win the pennant by "at least seven games...