Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hathaway have resorted to tactics in an unexpected quarter. It seems that science, logic, and philosophy have apparently not been able to determine the number of days in a week. Dr. Means thinks that from one Wednesday to another is a week but Dr. Hathaway counts to seven on his fingers and finds it is Tuesday...
Sending the largest number of men ever to take part in an intercollegiate boxing match, Coach Lamar has named seven men to compete in the tournament at Penn State Saturday. Trial bouts will be held on Friday...
...vaudeville is up to standard but not above it. The seven Danwills are excellent gymnasts but most people have seen their act by this time at one theatre or another. One act gets laughs by beginning in and, more or less, with the audience...
Francis' unattractive wife, Claude, was kept too busy bearing him seven children to give him any cause for jealousy. But the beauteous Françoise de Foix, one of his mistresses, did. Francis' royal handling of an embarrassingly bourgeois situation became a classic. The intruder, surprised by Francis' unexpected knock, took shelter in the fireplace, which was screened by leafy boughs. Francis, as if unaware that anything was amiss, treated Françoise in his usual fashion, then relieved himself into the fireplace...
...these eight short stories, three were included in Author Feuchtwanger's lengthy novel, Success (1930); none was written later than seven years ago. Though not hot off the griddle, they are nevertheless served up with such neatness and dispatch that their taste is still fresh. Exile Feuchtwanger (Power, The Ugly Duchess, Josephus) thus explains their publication: "When at the beginning of 1933 my home in Berlin was searched by the National Socialists and nearly all my manuscripts, as well as those entrusted to me by friends in other countries, were destroyed, I thought the time had come to collect...