Word: stone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grey, stone-built Edinburgh last week the 70-year-old 7th Duke of Buccleuch wriggled his lean limbs into an archer's uniform of woodland green. So did all the Scottish aristocrats of the Royal Company of Archers, of whom the Duke is Captain-General. They filled their quivers with silver-barbed arrows, stepped into their limousines and rode to Holyrood Palace, there to guard King George and Queen Mary who had come up for Scotland's yearly "drawing room...
Flat on the altar steps of the grey stone church at squat, dun-colored, little Caughnawaga, Quebec one day last fortnight lay Michael Jacobs, 32. When he arose an ordained Jesuit priest, pledged to missionary work among Indians around Caughnawaga, many a spectator felt that an old, old debt had been partly paid...
Governor Sholtz passed the buck to State Relief Administrator Julius F. Stone Jr. "Reliever Stone figured it would cost $2,000,000 to dole Key West for another five years. "The thing to do," he announced, "is to make Key West so attractive as to revive the tourist trade. Key West should be the Bermuda of America...
...clean steel towering above the city's smoke and grime. But Depression canceled many a promise of cash. Since 1931 the Cathedral of Learning has been a stranded skeleton, with students warming themselves by oil burners in the seven floors completed. To finish dressing his dream in stone Chancellor Bowman lately launched a new campaign for $1,650,000. It has gone harder this time and by last week only $630,000 had been pledged...
EYES IN THE WALL-Carolyn Wells- Lippincott ($2). The title phrase allows Fleming Stone his solution of three murders among Greenwich Village artists...