Word: throughness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"Immediately after dark this entire area becomes a sort of No Man's Land, with patrols on both sides operating through the valleys. The Germans never fail to send patrols nightly. They operate in groups of 40, preceded by highly trained dogs which come to a silent 'point...
At 6 p.m., artillery opened up. From Far back in France, big shells roared through the sky "making the sound of thunder which accompanies sheet lightning." Each shell took 68 seconds to reach its destination in Germany after a flight of some nine miles. "The angry 'pang, pang, pang...
Last fortnight, his health cracked at 44, Joe Connolly called it quits and resigned. To replace him, in came Gortatowsky. Gorty had started 33 years ago as an unpaid cub on the Atlanta Constitution. When Hearst's King Features summoned him 22 years later he was the Constitution'...
New Orleans' oldest daily newspaper (founded 1837) is the morning Times-Picayune, and no competitor has ever seriously challenged its dominance. The Picayune* sent George Wilkins Kendall, reputedly the first U. S. war correspondent, to Vera Cruz in 1847, published the peace treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo before the President...
Out to Metairie with a photographer went Meigs Frost. They crawled through weeds and bushes on a neighboring lot, snapped pictures of a university truck delivering millwork. The house was for a close friend of Governor Richard Webster Leche. Two days later, after poring over deeds and checking facts, the...