Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stones have stood for a thousand years, and pained thoughts found...
...Moore has written so many sonnets (50,000) that he habitually thinks in blocks of 14 lines. Since his 18th year he has written an average of five sonnets a day, and as many as 100 in four hours. This month he published a few of them: M: One Thousand Autobiographical Sonnets (Harcourt, Brace...
...Theatre Guild and Alfred Lunt, chucked his lucrative radio work, took Idiot's Delight on tour. Hailed as a natural for the hoofer role, he got rave notices. But the show did poor business, wound up its brief tour last week $10,000 in the red.* "Ten thousand dollars." said Baker, who is returning to radio to recoup before taking another crack at the stage, "is more than it was worth...
...Forum" goes on to report that Cambridge sent a wire to Harvard reading: "Heading for thousand pounds. How about you Yanks...
...contest for the title of "proudest small town in America," judges awarded the prize to Cadiz, Ohio (pop., 2,597). Reason: it "has had more citizens of wide renown than any other community under ten thousand population." Some famed Cadizians: Critic Percy Hammond, Cinemactor Clark Gable, Robert P., Charles S. and Thomas A. Scott, inventors of ''the peach parer, the pea viner and the pea podder...