Word: sevenths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Seventh Day, Fourth Story...
...will refer to the Decameron of Boccaccio, Seventh Day, Fourth Story, you shall find this tale narrated exactly as above; the characters being Tofano and his wife Madam Ghita which makes me think that if this story, related to Mme Celarié is true, then this is a case where history repeated itself, almost verbatim...
...same story appears in the Decameron, and is the fourth story of the seventh...
Ghosts of rum-tippling, slave-swopping Early Americans arose last week, as Evolution has often done to plague contemporary pedagogy. To the School Board of Franklin. Pa. had been recommended a new textbook for the seventh and eighth grades-Socialized History of the U. S. by Charles Van Nest and Henry Smith. The board read the book, was divided in its opinion. Especially objectionable seemed two passages...
Long years ago on a dreary seventh of March, Daniel Webster stood up before the Senate of the United States and delivered what chauvinistic New Englanders are still pleased to remember as a most unfortunate speech. Many and great were the execrations heaped upon his head. One man particularly was outraged. He wrote a poem called Ichabod which today third graders recite in a fumbling monotone on Memorial Day. He also broke forth in trenchant prose with the words, "The God that made New Hampshire taunted that lofty state with little men." Old Boston squatted on its haunches and shook...