Word: third
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nomination to succeed himself against Mr. Berry who is an ex-cowboy, wears a white sombrero, and once astounded a Washington redcap by stepping off a train and shouting "Hell, boy, where's the water-hole?" When the votes were tallied, Mr. Hitchcock came in a bad third, behind a Congressman named Fred Hildebrandt, leaving Rooseveltian Mr. Berry with nothing between himself and the Senate but the November elections. His Republican opponent will be Chandler Gurney-who lost a close Senate race in 1936, campaigning over a radio station which he operates himself...
...curtains of her old red-brick house on North 12th St. Her telephone is not listed. Her letterhead does not have an address. Her sister, who lives with her, is almost blind; her Negro answers the doorbell only when it rings a certain number of times. Projecting from the third story is an old Philadelphia "busybody," an arrangement of mirrors so she can see who is at the door without opening the window. Nothing in the old house has been changed since her mother died. In the front room there is an urn containing palm leaves from the funeral...
...called, was worn by Adolf Hitler, emerging on the first morning of his visit, after having received Benito Mussolini for a half-hour conference at the King's Palace. Der Fuhrer laid a wreath at the Pantheon (royal tombs), another at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, a third at the Fascist Altar on the Capitoline Hill. Lunch was at the King's Palace, followed by a go-minute conference in Il Duce's office, and then the two Dictators drove to Rome's airport. On one side of this half-mile-square field naval cadets...
After some spectacular maneuvers off Capri, the cruisers Fiume and Zara opened up against the radio-controlled target cruiser San Marco, firing live 8-inch shells at a range of eleven miles. An airplane circling above the target ship radioed to the Conte di Cavour that "the third salvo of shells hit the target squarely." Two planes then blotted out the San Marco with a smoke screen like the drawing of a quick curtain...
...close to the rail, stuck in the ruck until he found his opening. Coming into the stretch, he pulled out in front-three, four, five lengths- shot across the finish line a full length ahead of William du Pont's fast closing Dauber. Can't Wait was third. Favorites Fighting Fox and Bull Lea finished out of the money...