Word: sevenths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tall, fair haired and grey eyed. Jordon was 5 ft. 65 in., black-haired, brown-eyed. Franklin Roosevelt stopped trolling long enough to radio Washington, stay Thomas Jordon's execution for the sixth time, order the Department of Justice to investigate. Last week, four days before the seventh time set for execution, Franklin Roosevelt commuted Busboy Jordon's sentence to life imprisonment...
Dave Shean, Coach Mitchell's slow ball twirler, ascended the mound to start the game for Harvard and had easy going until the seventh inning. Up to that frame the converted outfielder had allowed only two bingles and no runs...
With the advent of the seventh, Shean weakened considerably and to the tune of two doubles in a row, two singles, and a free ticket, a brace of enemy runs leaked across the plate...
...Lang? The seventh son of a seventh son, dour, hawk-nosed Cosmo Gordon Lang, 72, was not raised in the church that he governs. His father was a Presbyterian preacher, the Very Rev. John Marshall Lang, Principal of Aberdeen University.* At University of Glasgow precocious Cosmo Gordon Lang won his M.A. degree at the age of 18 and a year later a valuable scholarship at swank Balliol College, Oxford. Always a politician, always ambitious, Student Lang was elected president of the Oxford Union over such potent undergraduates as Lord Curzon, Sir Edward Grey, Novelist Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins (The Prisoner...
...Texas he noted that most citizens seemed satisfied to stay there in spite of one who declaimed: "If they gave me hell and Texas, I'd rent out Texas and live in hell." Oklahoma was one long dust storm. He felt he could not improve on the seventh-grade essayist who wrote: "Dust, that terrible word dust, when we hear the word our mind turns to thinking of coughing, choking particles that come from somewhere to make our days unpleasant. . . . One thing we can be proud of United States dust storms are the latest thing...