Word: third
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dinner in her honor, where the countess, according to Muggy's plans will disgrace the dowager with a strip-tease act. The hitch comes when one of Muggy's best friends, three hours before the stripping, announces that he has wed the countess, thus insuring suitable third-act complications...
...third of a nation" (by Arthur Arent; Living Newspaper, producer). When President Roosevelt in his second inaugural address, January 20, 1937, declared that he found in the U. S. ". . . one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, and ill-nourished," he spoke a resounding mouthful. Last week the Federal Theatre made that echoing phrase the text for the latest edition of its Living Newspaper.* Against a cross-sectional background of a four-story tenement house with crumbling stairways and dank, sunless rooms, the U. S. slum problem is forcefully dramatized. Statistics and editorial comment are dressed up with music...
...Tennessee, sat up in the sickbed where he had lain for 18 days ailing of influenza, and for the first time learned some-thing that all the rest of his diocese knew. Very Rev. Israel Harding Noe, dean of St. Mary's Cathedral in Memphis, was entering the third week of a fast which he hoped would prove that "the soul is above the need of material life" (TIME...
...decided to build an imposing three-story colonial brick museum. To immortalize its heroes, baseball administrators voted to establish therein a Baseball Hall of Fame -to take the form of bronze plaques placed around the first floor exhibition hall. Last week the Baseball Writers Association of America, in its third annual election, chose Grover Cleveland Alexander to join the 13 Immortals** already selected...
Immortal No. 14, whose career, like most baseballers', has been a poignant illustration of the old baseball adage-a hero in the third inning may look like a bum in the seventh-was last week swapping tales with local barflies in the Empire Hotel at Springfield, Ill., when he was informed of his fortunate rescue from obscurity. One of the most effective right-handed pitchers of all time, Grover Cleveland ("Old Pete") Alexander, now 50, could review a career that reached its third inning in the 1926 World Series (between the Cardinals and Yankees) when, after a night...