Word: thrice
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mister Percy-Only one of Lazarus Straus's three sons stayed with Macy's- Isidor. Nathan branched out for himself. Oscar was thrice Minister to Turkey and Theodore Roosevelt's Secretary of Commerce & Labor-first Jew to sit in the Cabinet. It was Isidor's three sons who pushed Macy's sales to nearly $100,000,000 in 1929 and held them to $80,000,000 last year. The eldest grandson, Jesse Isidor, who insists on having his middle name spelled out and who contributed heavily to the Democratic campaign, resigned as president to serve...
...last evening staring into the crackling hickory fire which drove the fall chill from his chimney corner, and thinking how the barbarian shriek of fire-engines would soon dispel the peace of his chambers under Memorial's clock. Suddenly there came a knocking from the depths, rap, rap, rap, thrice it came, and the distant corner of the room, illuminated only by the firelight, glowed with a greenish phosphorescence. Startled, the Vagabond discerned a figure standing there, limned in the faint, emerald light. Its coat was of gabardine, its trousers of flannel, from its eyes came the pinkish reflection...
...shirker is square-faced Count Yasuya Uchida, until last week Japan's Foreign Minister. Thrice Foreign Minister in his prime, he was 67 and getting deaf last year when his Emperor called him back to gloss over Japan's Manchurian grab. Then he resigned as president of the South Manchuria Railway, a post that carried leadership of all Japanese interests in Manchuria, to direct the cocky demonstration of Japan's "right to Manchuria." By last week the Manchurian job was done and Count Uchida resigned to give way to a younger Foreign Minister, Koki Hirota, onetime Ambassador...
...getting the cream off the top." The Communist attitude was exemplified last week when burly, bald, scowling Robert Minor, the party's current nominee for Mayor of New York, attempted to picket a Brooklyn furniture factory in defiance of an injunction. Super-solemn Communist Minor, 49, thrice married, is the son of a Texas judge. For years he edited the Daily Worker, drew savage cartoons for the old Masses. On a soap box before the NRA factory, he yelled at its workers: "Comrades! Most of you are non-union members. You must earn a living...
...districts of the U.S. took to the waters. Especially crowded were the sea beaches fringing New York City. On Staten Island, believers arose at dawn, thinking that the earlier the dip the more sure the cure. Method of seeking cures- for anything from headache to cancer-is to bathe thrice, praying the while. But the old and the obese content themselves with a few splashes. Less credulous Catholics have the full approval of the Church in offering novenas (nine-day prayers) in honor of the Virgin, and going on solemn Assumption processions through their parishes. The Assumption...