Word: third
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Irascible Mr. Spencer was divorced last spring by his third wife, 76-year-old Emeline Harriman Olin Spencer, sister of Mrs. William Kissam Vanderbilt. Said Mrs. Spencer: ''He never hit me, he just exploded. He would yell so the whole of Palm Beach could hear...
...last week Third Termites bored busily in the solid wooden pillars of U. S. politics. Scripps-Howard's cartoonist, Harold Talburt, caught the spirit of it in a drawing of Harry Hopkins and Harold Ickes, two urchins standing on the magic table of Franklin the Great, hoisting a third-term rabbit out of the absent wizard...
...celebration at Wrigley Field just before his managerial debut in a double-header with the Dodgers (which they split), onetime Hero Charlie Grimm was on his way back to his Missouri farm. Mindful of his two pennants (1932 and 1935) and the enviable record of never finishing lower than third in the six years he managed the Cubs, Charlie Grimm smiled ruefully. "That's baseball." said...
...last few years, while one third of the population has lacked adequate medical attention, thousands of doctors have twiddled impecunious thumbs in empty offices. The American Medical Association has talked much, done little. Last year revolt rocked the genteel profession when 430 doctors, with big names and big practices, demanded that the A. M. A. pay more attention to the social problems of medicine, urged that the Government step in to help doctors as well as patients...
Although Angelica Balabanoff tells many a damaging story about famed revolutionists, harshly criticizes the Soviet Union, her book gives no comfort to conservatives. At Lenin's insistence she became first secretary of the Third International. But intrigues, double-dealing - principally by Zinoviev - and unscrupulous measures taken to discredit opponents soon disillusioned her. No hero-worshiper, she considers Lenin chiefly responsible for the weaknesses of the modern revolutionary movement, says she often remonstrated with him about ruthless Bolshevik tactics. Closing one eye, he would stare at her "with an expression which was more sad than sardonic" and ask, "Comrade Angelica...