Word: thrice
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Earl Baldwin, thrice Prime Minister of Britain, weighed down with a crimson robe festooned with miniver, had to go thirsty. He was standing just outside the House of Lords fidgeting with a black cocked hat. waiting to be inducted. A thin stream of dignitaries trickled towards him-Sir Gerald Woods Wollaston, Garter Principal King of Arms; the Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal of England; the Earl of Ancaster, Lord Great Chamberlain; the Earl of Derby and the Marquess of Londonderry, two senior peers. They shuffled into position, marched up the aisle towards the woolsack whereon sat Viscount Hailsham, Lord Chancellor...
...Although the time when veterans might convert their Wartime insurance from "term" to "regular" was supposed to have expired in 1927, Congress thrice extended the time for a total of ten years. Last week the President stepped in and vetoed a bill which would have extended the period a fourth time, thereby automatically bringing the conversion period to an end June 2. Promptly this week the House overrode the veto 368-10-13, the Senate...
...welcoming the dog-mushers, riverboaters and flyers; playing nightly host at phonograph dances where giggling Eskimo "chickens"' come to flirt with the sourdoughs; cooking the meals he serves all-comers at the unvarying price of $1.50 per meal; baking 15 loaves of 50? bread in his big cookstove thrice a week; swapping supplies for gold at $32 the ounce; introducing to the civilization over which he presides such novelties as moving pictures, electric lights, and a short-wave radio which brings news from Berlin and London but cannot get Seattle...
...Author, No New Dealer but a scholar-journalist who for 42 years has been a keen observer of the U. S. scene. Burton Jesse Hendrick has thrice won the Pulitzer Prize, twice for biographies (Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, 1922; The Training of an American, 1928), once for history (coauthor with Admiral William Sowden Sims: The Victory at Sea, 1920). Keen observers of the current literary scene considered that Bulwark of the Republic might well earn Author Hendrick prize...
...against compromise, but with only one exception (Senator Pittman) they voted for the compromise. Yet it also was defeated, 10-to-8, for only one of the opponents (New Mexico's Hatch) went over to the compromise. So far as the committee was concerned the President had lost thrice, once on his bill, once when his supporters voted to compromise, and again when even compromise was rejected...