Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late great Joseph ("Old Joe") Chamberlain, though he was never Prime Minister of England, dominated the policy of the British Empire from 1895 until his paralytic stroke in 1906. Dying in July, 1914. he bequeathed to British politics two arch-conservative sons. Old Joe, scion of masters of the Cordwainers' Company,* maltsters, brewers, cheesemongers and ironmongers, was the first middle-class Englishman to move with arrogant authority among Victorian England's ruling class. Symbols of his good opinion of himself were the monocle in his cold, irritable eye, the invariable orchid in his buttonhole. He wrecked two parties...
...heart." Bathed by his father's setting sun, he became Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1903. For his work as Britain's Foreign Secretary (1924-29) he got the Nobel Peace Prize and the almost unprecedented honor, for a commoner, of being raised at one stroke to the Knighthood of the Garter, a rank customarily reserved for peers. Then Sir Austen faded into the Conservative Party's greatest wheel horse, wearing his father's monocle, not the orchid...
...show a fighter's exact weight, made a prizefight crowd of 40,000 stand in silence while he improvised a prayer the night Lindbergh was flying toward Paris. In 1933, when he awoke one night to find himself alone and paralyzed as a result of his first stroke of apoplexy, Announcer Humphreys achieved his masterpiece. He announced his own predicament. After he had shouted for five hours, aid came from his neighbors...
Miserable or not, the tryouts at least set a record for swimming meets by producing no swimming records of any kind. Qualified for the Olympic team were 18 familiar sports-page figures, including Crooner Eleanor Holm Jarrett (back stroke); Katherine Rawls (freestyle sprint, springboard dive), Lenore Kight Wingard (400-metre free style...
...British Open championship since 1923 was Henry Cotton in 1934. Last week, Cotton got a record-breaking 67 in his first qualifying round. When a thunderstorm interrupted play later in the day, officials canceled all scores; including his. Cotton got a 68 the next day, finished one stroke back of Adams, one ahead of Sarazen...