Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...investigator, who in true F. B. I. tradition, refused to reveal his name, motive, or personal history examined all two of the Lampoon's typewriters. He took samples of the writing and jotted down the serial numbers of each machine...
...Winthrop Common Room last night a typical Harvard show was presented. It was written by undergraduates, and it was acted by undergraduate hams. It contained a dull first act, an hilarious second act, and a riotous third act, took a lot of stoking to get up steam, but the audience loved it anyhow...
...Aliquippa, Pa. when Mario Izzo died, Aliquippans took up a collection to move his body from potter's field, and buy him a tombstone. Reason: Last summer when oldster Izzo, an Italian immigrant, was put on relief, he looked at his first weekly check for $3.60, seized a broom and went out to sweep the streets six hours a day, six days a week, explaining: "I think this is a wonderful country. I decide I will be an honest man with this country. ... So I start to sweep. . . . My bread it tastes sweet and I feel like...
Review. In 1924, Henry Seidel Canby, William Rose Benet and Christopher Morley took The Saturday Review of Literature out of the New York Evening Post, launched it as a separate publication. Its amiable reviews, amiable literary gossip, mildly titillating personal ads, weekly word puzzle, reached some 30,000 readers. Dr. Canby stepped down as editor in 1936, irascible Bernard De Voto stepped up. Two years later De Voto turned over direction to young, good-natured George Stevens. Last week another shake-up left The Saturday Review with the same editors but new owners. Purchaser was tall, hard-working Joseph Hilton...
Boston's Brains became undisputed world hockey champions when they defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs 2 to 1, tonight, to take a best-out-of-seven series for the Stanley Cup. The Bruins took four games to one for the Leafs...