Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Doctor of the Year was Allan Roy Dafoe whose skill and commonsense as a family physician the Dionne quintuplets could last week thank for the fact that they were seven months old and weighed an aggregate...
...wish to align myself with theater-bombing syndicates, William Randolph Hearst, or the NSL, but merely believe that such anomalies in Harvard life as discontinuance of a matutinal seven o'clock alarm, discontinuance of a reading knowledge of hieroglyphics as an entrance requirement, and an occasional good-natured recount all work for the best in lifting the institution (Harvard) from the withered hand of tradition...
...they sat there--seven feet apart--in their rickety pine chairs while the State of New Jersey began grinding away at the task of selecting a jury to try Hauptmann for the crime that stunned civilization...
...Every 30 years or so Harvard University graduates a Robert Treat Paine. The quinquennial catalogue lists seven: in 1749, 1779, 1822, 1855, 1882, 1888, 1922. First and most famed was Robert Treat Paine who signed the Declaration of Independence. His son and namesake became a poet. From the day he answered in couplet the satirical thrust of a classmate "his blessed ruin was inevitable." He fell in with a theatrical company. His father threw him out of the house when he married the leading lady. He took to drink, drifted into poverty, died in the attic of his father...
...almost landlocked harbor that mail boats could take off only 700 of the Olympic's mail load of 13,108 bags. Captain Binks called it "the worst bloomin' sea I ever saw in 35 years at Quarantine." Unconnected with Captain Binks's retirement was the accident seven months ago in which the Olympic cut the Nantucket Lightship in half, killed seven of her crew (TIME, May 28). To newshawks last week he said he "didn't give a Cape Horn damn" about quitting the sea, later confessed he hated to leave it. Of the future...