Word: sixths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Readers' popularity spread and Professor McGuffey marched up to his famed Sixth Reader, he thought less of his pious models, drew freely on Shakespeare, Byron, Scott, Whittier, all of whom he hacked to suit his purpose. He launched a series of Great Characters, solemnly revealed that Louis XVI "took his very emetics in state, and vomited majestically in the presence of all his nobles." Of Lafayette: "Others have lived in the love of their own people; but who, like this man, has drunk his sweetest cup of welcome with another?'' But the editor's favorite Great...
...Sixth in total business was Blyth & Co., Charles Edwin Mitchell's new stand. "Charlie" Mitchell's financing for the first half footed up to $263,000,000. Other ranking houses: Lazard Frères ($168,000,000); Bancamerica-Blair ($156,000,000); Halsey, Stuart ($143,000,000); Lehman Bros. ($137,000,000); A. C. Allyn ($128,000,000); Mellon Securities ($113,000,000); Field Glore & Co. ($113,000,000). Chase National Bank was well up in the list ($136,000,000) with its municipal bond underwriting, which is still permissible for commercial banks...
...gunman, Bass did not amount to much. His great claim to fame lay in his having taken a minor part in a train robbery at Big Springs, Neb. in 1877, and getting one-sixth of the $60,000 loot. He then led a gang, operating out of Denton, Tex. that held up four trains in a few weeks. The biggest haul, however, was only $1,280, to be divided among four men. Bass dodged Rangers and posses for a year, was betrayed by a spy in his gang, pinked while preparing to rob a bank at Round Rock...
...Lionel Barrymore) gets back to Paris from an undeserved sojourn on Devil's Island with a handy means of vengeance on the men who put him there. His weapon is a discovery made by a fellow prisoner (Henry B. Walthall) of a way to reduce people to one-sixth of their size. Heretofore the process, which has been used only for such playful purposes as reducing St. Bernard dogs to the size of Chow pups, has had the effect on humans of reducing their minds commensurately with their bodies, making the resultant peewees almost witless. The scientist eliminates this...
...enthusiastic owner, Radio's Powel Crosley, appeared the ablest, as they were undoubtedly the most surprising, because they have won only one pennant in 51 years, have been tailenders since 1929. The Boston Bees (onetime Braves), feeblest team in the league a year ago, were battling sturdily in sixth place, far ahead of the Philadelphia Phillies, the ridiculously temperamental Brooklyn Dodgers...