Word: sevenths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President imposed his fifth, sixth and seventh vetoes on bills: 1) to grant an honorable discharge from the U. S. Navy to John Thomas Simpkin, twice convicted of overstaying leaves of absence; 2) to grant a year's pay ($8,000) to the widow of William Holt Gale, a foreign service officer; 3) to allow the Turtle Mountain band of Chippewa Indians to sue the Government for claims which they renounced for consideration of $1,000,000 in a treaty made 30 years...
...divorce from Lydell Peck became final. Now in Change of Heart she and Farrell are happily reunited. Neither homely nor comely, Miss Gaynor brings to her new role all the old sentimentality which made her the screen's No. 1 popular actress following her appearance with Farrell in Seventh Heaven...
Charles H. Johnson of Cranberry Lake, N. J.: the seventh annual outboard-motor boat marathon down the Hudson River from Albany to New York (132¼ mi.) in 2 hr., 59 min., 38 sec. In his Class C boat, Dorchart III, the 23-year-old driver averaged 44.2 m.p.h., came within 3 min. of the course record set by a higher-powered boat. Winner of Amateur Class A and one of 18 drivers to finish in a field of 66 starters, was Gar Wood Jr., 16-year-old son of the famed speedboating "Silver Fox of Algonac." Youngster Wood...
...Winthrop men played stellar ball during the first six innings of the tile, going into the last of the seventh with a comfortable lead, but the homer by Peter and errors on the part of the Puritans suddenly threw them out on the short end of the score. Norman Letarie, Winthrop's biggest swatter, chalked up another home run for himself in the seventh...
...period and tabloid column that the 1933-34 prizewinner was Men in White by Sidney Kingsley. This was startling and unpleasant news to the play jury composed of Clayton Hamilton, oldtime drama-critic, Author Walter Prichard Eaton (Boy Scouts in the Dismal Swamp}, and Play wright Austin Strong (Seventh Heaven}. Incensed not at Gossip Winchell's premature revelation but at the Columbia School of Journalism's general prize committee for scuttling the play jury's unanimous choice, Professor Hamilton hotly declared: "I think it's outrageous. The opinion of the judges, who selected [Maxwell...