Word: third
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Office-holding Washingtonians began to receive their annual invitations to the Jackson Day dinner, set for next Jan. 8, grumbled their usual grumbles at the price ($100), but decided to be there in case Guest-of-Honor Franklin Roosevelt took that occasion for a third-term pronouncement...
...were two German raiders, one of them the pocket battleship Deutschland. The Admiralty said that when Rawalpindi ignored a shot across her bows, Deutschland fired a salvo with her 11-inch guns at 10,000 yards. Rawalpindi replied with all four of her starboard 6-inchers. Deutschland's, third salvo put out all the Britisher's lights, halted the electric ammunition hoists; a fourth tore away the bridge and wireless room. The second raider circled astern and attacked from Rawalpindi's, port side, but she fought on for half an hour until her last gun was silenced...
...fifth night before the event likewise was unfavorable and again the plan had to be postponed. The night from the fourth to third day before Nov. 8, however, gave Elser an opportunity to fix his timing mechanism in the prepared dynamite chamber...
Thanksgiving week saw three comedies open on Broadway, all of them bad. Aries Is Rising (by Caroline North & Earl Blackwell) featured a lady astrologer, suggested that the producers themselves were guided by astrology in putting it on. Ring Two (by Gladys Hurlbut), George Abbott's third production of the season, was penny amusing and pound silly. I Know What I Like (by Sculptor Justin Sturm) displayed a huge statue by Columnist Westbrook Pegler which stole the show. It may also have inspired it. "If Peg can do sculpture," Sculptor Sturm perhaps told himself, "I can write a play...
...Lawrence, Kans., Paul Christman & Co. showed Kansas what this year's Missouri team can do. They chalked up three touchdowns, a 20-to-0 victory and their first Big Six Conference championship. Nebraska, drubbing Oklahoma last week (13-to-7), finished second; Oklahoma third...