Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that was publicly known of President Smith's movements for seven days was that Jack Adams drove Dr. and Mrs. Smith to the Chisca Hotel in Memphis on June 25, then returned to BatonRouge where he was arrested as a material witness...
...poor have their champions. The rich need none. The British middle classes had one in William Ewart Gladstone (1809-98) and today the U. S. is offered another by Walter Boughton Pitkin, 62, Columbia University publicist who discovered seven years ago that "life begins at 40." Last year prodigious Professor Pitkin explained "why we need a rabble rouser of the right" (TIME, Sept. 19). Last week he tried rousing Elyria, Ohio and so many people (over 600) went to hear him that he called for a League of the Middle Class...
Traveling mysteriously about Japanese-conquered China last week was a suave, subtle Oriental named Wang Ching-wei. Seven months ago this Chinese statesman was one of the powers at Chungking, China's temporary capital; last week he was reported about to become Japan's No. 1 puppet at Peking, seat of the North China Government. From Chungking to Peking these days is a longer distance ideologically than geographically, and the fact that Mr. Wang, elder revolutionary, onetime collaborator with Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, one of the old "Big Three" in Chinese affairs,* has made the ideological as well as geographical trip...
Bachelor Mother (RKO Radio), despite a title calculated to arouse the curiosity of censor boards, is as wholesome and comic a twitting as bastardy has ever received. Although Polly Parrish (Ginger Rogers) is not the mother of the seven-months-old baby she brings to a foundling home, no one will believe her, because the infant howls when taken from her arms. Her predicament is complicated when her ex-boss's scapegrace son (David Niven), solicitous for the baby's welfare, gives her back her old job and a raise. Polly and her pals proceed in persistent misunderstandings...
...through lacerated lips. "That bum's way overrated. He's not even a patch on Jack Johnson's pants." Meanwhile, more disinterested sports men hailed Joe Louis as the greatest pugilist of all time - no one had ever successfully defended the world's heavyweight championship seven times...