Word: thrice
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after long illness; in Hollywood. Author of a book on palmistry at 13, he amassed $250,000 from rich female clients, owned an English-language newspaper in Paris, The American Register. On the night he died, said his nurse, the clock outside his room struck the hour of one thrice...
...Crimson the Vagabond notices through a sheaf of printed letters. Dear Sir: Will you fill out enclosed postcard . . . . your lectures . . . . most interesting to undergraduates outside your course . . . . thrice-weekly Vagabond column...
...other's stomachs, woke to find they had slumbered over the North Pole. Elated, Negro Henson led three Eskimos in three whooping cheers while Explorer Peary planted the U. S. flag. Reflected he: "That was the happiest day of my life." Lincoln's Mayor Charles W. Bryan, thrice (1923-25, 1931-35) Governor of Nebraska, onetime (1924) Democratic candidate for the Vice-Presidency, brother of the late Great Commoner, spied a couple hugging each other as they drove down a Lincoln street, followed them into a beer tavern. At the Mayor's complaint, the bartender refused...
After all are seated (which, it is hoped, will be achieved by 10.30), the Chief Marshal, advancing to the center of the platform, will make the traditional request, "Mr. Sheriff, pray give us order"; and the Sheriff of Middlesex, rapping thrice on the platform with the scabbard of his sword, will say, "The meeting will be in order...
...Vries, darted through the supposedly impregnable barrier of the Dictator's black-jacketed S. S. Guards and thrust an autograph book into his hands. Obligingly Herr Hitler signed. Suddenly the crowd of 18,000 gasped as Mrs. de Vries appeared to grapple with the Realmleader once, twice, thrice, before she got her arms around his neck and soundly kissed him. Neither grim old Feldmarschall August von Mackensen, who was sitting on Adolf Hitler's right, nor Minister of Interior Dr. Wilhelm Frick, who was on his left, moved a muscle to prevent what, for all they knew, might...