Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Belasco Theatre in Manhattan, has been art director for three cinema companies. And, best of all, he is the author of one of the most successful burlesques ever written: Hazel Weston, or More Sinned Against Than Usual. This Shinnanigan has been played continuously for 23 years and translated into seven languages. Year ago, along with Myrtle Clayton, or Wronged from the Start, it was bought by Warner Bros. for the cinema...
First session resulted in Dr. Machen, through counsel, challenging all seven members of the commission trying him. He accused them either of prejudging his case or of being his enemies or, if laymen, of being influenced against him by their pastors...
Died. Arthur ("Art") Young,* 52, famed archer; after an appendectomy; at Harvey, Ill. An expert pistol and rifle shot, he turned to bows & arrows "because it gives the beasts a chance." In 1925 he went to Africa with Stewart Edward White and the late Dr. Saxton Pope, killed seven lions with his dagger-pointed arrows. He slew walruses in Greenland, a 1,300-lb. bear on Kodiak Island...
...balmy summer of 1929, President Hoover's Secretary of War James William Good went to Minneapolis to help dedicate a great building. On hand for the same purpose were Congressmen, foreign delegates, seven Governors, Sousa's Band. Built with the profits from countless utility promotions and designed to resemble the Washington Monument, the 32-story structure was equipped with sumptuous living quarters for its owner, whose name was displayed in great black letters on all four sides-FOSHAY. Even more remarkable than his tower was Wilbur Burton Foshay, over whose desk used to hang the motto: "Why worry...
Pitcairn Islanders are Seventh Day Adventists and only a few backsliders eat meat. Every family head owns his own plot of ground, contributes a tithe of his produce to the community and seven days' labor a year to public works. Equal suffrage was instituted long before any European nation had it. School attendance is compulsory. Each family has a brand with which it marks all its possessions, animate and inanimate. The local government consists of a council of seven headed by a magistrate. There is no such thing as money, and only occasional mail from the outside world...