Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Following a visit to the President (see p. 11), San Antonio's Mayor Maury Maverick announced that he favored a third term for Roosevelt "1,000%." Mayor Maverick declared that Fellow Texan Garner's "future is behind him," said: "In a time of emergency like this we cannot afford to have a man as President as old as Mr. Garner is. He is a fine Christian, water-drinking gentleman. . . . No man has ever been elected in his seventies except Harrison* and I think he caught a cold and died in office...
Last week, its Abingdon season over, the Barter Theatre paid its third annual visit to Manhattan. In chain-store-fed Manhattan there were nine cash customers to one barterer. But the box office accepted a gallon of wine, tubes of toothpaste, some rayon underwear, size 36 and from Drama Critic John Anderson "a jugful of the milk of human kindness neatly skimmed." All these swelled a trifle the season's profits: $95, five barrels of jelly...
...fussbudget travelers who like to know where they are going and when they will get there, the North Atlantic last week was no fit place. In its third week the ground swell of World War II had tilted transatlantic shipping from confusion to chaos. Foreigners off to the wars could still obtain sailing permits from the U. S. State Department (providing they owed no income tax), but U. S. citizens who wanted to get to Europe had to unravel cat's-cradles of red tape. First requirement : a revalidated passport, good for six months at the most. These Secretary...
...South Africa with the British Army, marriage with one U. S. heiress and three foiled elopements with another (the fourth succeeded), World War decoration by England, France and Canada, extradition in 1923 to India to stand trial for an $18,000 jewelry fraud (later acquitted), eventual domestication with a third wife in Mississippi...
Lately, Author MacDonnell has gained notice for himself (and bank) by a blank-verse stand against isolation: "For twelve months past we have called Great Britain coward, traitor, dolt, because she did not jump into a war. We chalked her down a third-rate power, we pilloried appeasement, we covered her with lavish scorn-too old and dead to fight; and when at last she draws the sword, we turn our backs...