Word: sevenths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Proustians, whose numbers are growing in all Western lands, say that the late great Marcel Proust (died Nov. 18, 1922), half-Jew, half-snob, wholehearted rememberer of his past, was the ranking writer of his time. With U. S. publication of The Past Recaptured, seventh and last part of his gigantic "novel," The Remembrance of Things Past, which crept into print in France from 1913 to 1926, U. S. Proustians may now read their Bible from Genesis to Revelations, without benefit of dictionary...
...without placing first in any of the five events. He was fourth in the riding (on unfamiliar mounts over 500 metres of un familiar terrain), 14th in fencing (with buttoned épees), second in the pistol shoot (at disappearing targets with a 45-calibre revolver), fifth in the swimming, seventh in running 4,000 metres across rough country. Point total...
...Rogers Hornsby, for five years the leading batter in the National League, was appointed manager of the St. Louis Cardinals. In 1926 the Cardinals, who had finished seventh the year before, won the pennant and the world series. Hornsby was traded to the Giants. In 1927 he helped manage the Giants, had a batting average of .361. Hornsby was traded to the Boston Braves. Appointed manager of the Braves to replace Jack Slattery, Hornsby did well in his new job, led the league in batting. In 1928 he was traded to the Chicago Cubs. When Manager Joe McCarthy left...
...When a seventh consecutive Press conference was cancelled at the White House, correspondents predicted in print that this contact system had been abolished. The next conference was not cancelled. Explained the President: "You know I've been fairly busy recently." Then he read a mimeographed statement about signing the Home Loan Bank bill. ¶ Without fuss or feathers, President Hoover signed the Unemployment Relief Bill...
...deem it inexpedient to encourage her with her writing. His protegee's subsequent literary career has given him cause to turn proudly in his grave. Long a successful journalist (London Daily News, Daily Telegraph, Manchester Guardian), Authoress Harris won a $5,000 prize with her first novel, The Seventh Gate. Her second novel may popularize a writer who is apparently Katherine Mansfield's nearest living literary relative. Her book, written in an extraordinarily vivid style, too pointed for extended novel-writing, is a sequence of short story-like sketches. These episodes are telescoped into homogeneity by the accidents...