Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...artists who disrobed at intervals in the program, perhaps the most alluring was Miss Joan Dare, but other members of the audience loudly held that Miss Nora (Hotcha) Ford outstripped them all. As for their vocal efforts at popular songs, one must confess that while those heard were sweet, those unheard were sweeter...
...very careful of them. Inside of a week I received a lovely letter from a boy in Cambridge suggesting that I buy smaller fans since they would be far less expensive and I wouldn't have to worry about misplacing them. I think it was sweet of him, don't your. The reporter hastened to inform her that the young man had doubtlessly expressed the opinion of the whole college and had showed the practical side of the education received at Harvard...
Before he started south, the President vetoed the bill and his veto was instantly overridden (310-to-72) by the House (TIME, April 2). Last week was the Senate's turn to be an Indian-giver. In a reasonable, sweet-tempered veto message the President had promised still further restorations of pensions to veterans for the sake of preserving his New Deal principle. Said he: "What you and I are seeking is justice and fairness. . . . It goes without saying that I shall not hesitate to make further changes if the principles of justice demand them. . . . My disapproval of this...
...healed," shouted a girl's voice. "He is God," intoned the others. Overhead hung the red autogiro. After two hours marching, they streamed into great, dim Rockland Palace, praying, chanting, sweating. They began to stamp their feet. Divine appeared. "Oh Father Divine is so sweet, is so sweet," they chanted. On the platform Divine said nothing, rocked gently from side to side. Then he left for nearby Faithful Mary Mission, one of his many "extensions of Heaven," where his followers ate the turkey, the cold meats, the cakes, the pickles he had provided for them free...
...grocery store proprietor named David Dusell who had won $3,400 and explained why he was not surprised at his good fortune: "Two years ago I won $5,700 at Bowie on a parlay ticket and in 1905 I won the same amount." In Marblehead, Mass. William H. Sweet, 61-year-old fisherman who had won $50,000, and looks like Calvin Coolidge, said he did not know what he would do with the money. Asked by a photographer to smile, Fisherman Sweet snarled: "Well, you'll have to wait a minute. I can't get one started...