Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week the little nautilus shell, more formally known as the Scandinavian Gold Cup, had become recognized as the world's No. 1 yachting trophy for small boats. Norway had won it seven times, Sweden six times, the U. S. four times. Because a U. S. boat had won the series the past three years (and consequently defended the cup in its home waters), U. S. yachtsmen last winter sportingly offered to hold this year's defense in Finnish waters to spare Europeans the expense of sending their boats across the Atlantic for the third year...
...Manhattan house, son of an English-born international banker, Henry went through the regular paces of an idle and talented young man. He tried his hand at Wall Street and at playwriting, married, divorced and remarried, turned to the expensive indoor sport of sculpture. He put on seven shows, drew from the puzzled critics only such faint praise as "decadent, exotic, bizarre, sensational." In 1914 Sculptor Clews left Manhattan with silent dignity for Paris, the haven of Bohemian expatriates...
...disclaims responsibility); Royce Brier writes a front-page column on foreign affairs; Joseph Henry Jackson conducts the best book column in California. Of San Francisco's four newspapers, the Chronicle is the only one which pays much attention to what goes on outside of California. Typical headline in seven-column blackface...
...Bronx doctor who said he had examined Mrs. Geraci seven years ago declared she had been afflicted with "flip walk," result of flaccid paralysis. At week's end no physician had publicly attested her foot healed...
...store tax. Right then U. S. motormakers began to anticipate trouble. Last week to General Motors, Colorado sent a bill for $234,655; to Ford went one for $102,470; to Chrysler, Hudson, Studebaker, Nash and Packard went others totaling $193,995. Grand total: $531,120, billed to the seven motormakers for four years' chain-store license fees ($2.50 to $300.50 a store). Grounds: their licensing and supervision of dealers made them members of a chain...