Word: thrice
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...respected if not read by the U. S. at large, which has been taught to regard him as one of its few genuine home-grown authors. Three years ago Anderson settled -in Marion, Va., bought two country papers, one Democratic, one Republican, edits them impartially, contentedly. Thrice married, he has three children. Other books: Windy McPherson's Son, Winesburg, Ohio, Poor White, Triumph of the Egg, Horses and Men, A Story Teller's Story...
...late great Good Old Days publishers would think twice, thrice, about putting out solid wares in the light-minded summer season, would generally offer fripperies and froufrou. Competition has somewhat altered the case, but summer still turns (temporarily) many a serious publisher into a souffle-monger. Here are two concoctions guaranteed digestible in hot weather...
Married. Mrs. Nora Langhorne Phipps, youngest of the five famed Langhorne sisters of Virginia who inspired the (Charles Dana) Gibson Girl* and Maurice Bennett ("Lefty"') Flynn, Yaleman, onetime All-American football star, thrice before married and divorced (Irene Claire, Blanche Shrove Palmer, Cinemactress Viola Dana); in London. Mrs. Flynn knew her husband in Oregon many years ago, was not divorced from British Architect Paul Phipps until last month in London. A zealous photographer who sought to photograph bride & groom was knocked out by husky Mr. Flynn...
...balloons, filled with natural gas instead of thrice-more-buoyant hydrogen, floated sluggishly into a mushy sky over Akron one afternoon last week. They were to race for two of the three places on the U. S. Team in the James Gordon Bennett International Balloon Race in September.* Heavy rains beat two of the bags to earth within 20 mi. of the start. Storms that night brought down three more. Last to land was the Navy's entry, piloted by Lieuts. T. G. W. ("Tex") Settle and Wilfred Bushnell, at Marilla. N. Y., winning with the unimpressive distance...
...Canada, that morning, re-fuelled at Cleveland less than four hours ago. Only the final sentence remained to be written with the actual landing. That was the Winnie Mae's time: S days 15 hr. 51 min. around the world, a record.* The tale of the flight being already thrice-told, the news yet to be created was that of the hysterical reception at the field, an event which the Nassau County Police saved from stereotype by slugging jaws and cracking pates among the crowd...