Word: sevenths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cousins whose bodices and bustles are right out of Godey's Lady's Book. But beneath their modish taffetas each is dressed in an emotional hair shirt. Both Helen Menken, whose make-up has become more & more white and tragic since her girlish theatrical holiday in Seventh Heaven 13 years ago, and Judith Anderson, a sultry lady with an odd smirk at the corners of her mouth, are past mistresses at handling a heavily dramatic situation. They are both quite at home in The Old Maid, for that opus narrows down into a cat-&-cat fight between...
...seventh of fifteen matches played, Glidden, American intercollegiate finalist, defeated H. Lancaster, of Montreal, 16-17, 15-12, 15-9, 15-3, while in the twelfth engagement, Sargent, intercollegiate champion, defeated H. Martin, of Hamilton, Ontarie...
...Seventh president of the Pennsylvania Railroad (1899-1906) was Alexander Johnston Cassatt, "the brains of the Pennsylvania," who launched the campaign that drove the Pennsy under the Hudson River into Manhattan. His son Robert Kelso Cassatt went into the family banking and brokerage firm of Cassatt & Co. Last week Cassatt & Co. announced it would discontinue its brokerage business to become a general investment company. Senior Partner Cassatt and Partner Joseph Walker Wear, Philadelphia socialite, will become partners in the brokerage house of E. A. Pierce & Co., largest wire firm on the New York Stock Exchange...
...late George Eastman, is for a year of 13 months with 28 days each, plus an extra holiday every Dec. 29 and a Leap Day on June 29 in Leap Years. The World Calendar Association favors a twelve month year with equal quarters in which the first, fourth, seventh and tenth months would have 31 days, the rest 30 days, plus a Year-End Day and a Leap-Year Day. In 1931 the League of Nations, which on off days dabbles in calendar reform, sponsored a conference at which these two calendars were examined. Nothing much else was done...
Religious opponents of calendar reform are few?"Sabbatarian" sects like the Seventh Day Adventists and pious Jews such as compose the L. S. F. S. A. P. E. C. R. Six days do they labor and do all that they have to do but the seventh they worship and rest. If one extra day alone were introduced into their year they would eventually be observing the Sabbath on weekdays while the rest of the world worked...