Word: third
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other objects missing from the "jimmied" showcases on a third-floor room of the museum include three gold nose rings, two gold ear spools, two gold head crests, two gold strips to be sewn on clothing, two gold bird's heads, two miniature gold arm bands, two frog-shaped ornaments, two gold disks, and two other nondescript gold ornaments...
...most gripping element in the drama, however, is its creation of characters and its treatment of them. The two chief men are debased by the over-whelming catastrophes that hit the family, while a third male is left his ludicrously parasitic self. The mother of the family, however, is ennobled from the position of a comical termagant to that of a tight-lipped, long-suffering heroine. When the daughter is deserted in pregnancy by her shallow, pedantic lover, only the mother is able to pierce the hollow censure of society, and acquit her of guilt. The father is brutalized...
Fresh from its third consecutive triumph in the H.Y.P.D. matches held annually in New York during the Christmas holidays, the Harvard Chess Club looks forward to the New Year with a brand new, more specific constitution and highly original undertakings among its Yardling members...
Princeton finished second among the voting of the Eastern colleges, with a 75.2 count, while Yale turned up third, with 67.1. Philadelphia's Municipal Stadium was the recipient of the tail-end prize, closely rivaled by the Yankee Stadium in New York. Navy and Dartmouth facilities were also judged among the poorest of the colleges...
FADE OUT-Naomi Jacob-Macmillan ($2.50). The third importation in a year of a prolific, English popular novelist: this one about a playwright and an actress, in a plot which only the proverbial rich grandmother can straighten...