Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tall, blue-eyed Episcopal socialite. Daughter of a wealthy Georgia planter, she studied art eight years in Europe, there met the Irishman she subsequently married, the late Daniel O'Day, an official of Standard Oil of New Jersey. After his death in 1916 Mrs. O'Day took up social work and politics and, with her close friend Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, helped organize New York women for the Democracy. She participates in many of Mrs. Roosevelt's pet projects, is a co-vice president of her Val-Kill Furniture shop. When Caroline O'Day ran for Congress...
...Cunningham and Lash uncorked his galloping sprint. As far as the spectators could see, they split the tape neck and neck. Both were clocked by their individual timers at 4 min. 7.2 sec., half a second short of the world mark of Cunningham who finished a close third. It took the judges five minutes of rapid argument to decide that San Romani had won by a thumb. Gene Venzke had missed his try for the three-quarter record by 8/10 of a second...
...Pole base. When their radio cut out under polar magnetic influence, Navigator Beliakoff used the sun compass invented by Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd. It got so cold the drinking water froze, and the men would have too, but for their silk undergarments, leather breeches and turtlenecked sweaters. Only Baidukoff took a nap. Chkaloff stayed at the controls steadily, nursed his ship down over Prince Patrick Island to Ft. Simpson in far northern Canada, then veered to the Pacific Coast, headed down...
...With the possible exception of Proust the most-written-about French writer of the last century, Anatole France has not yet been the subject of a definitive English biography. Why biographers have been scared away may be surmised by reading Author Dargan's volume, a 729-pager which took ten years to write and covers only 52 of France's 80 years. Author Dargan, Professor of French Literature at the University of Chicago, excuses himself from covering the last 28 years by saying that the facts are too hard to get straight, that France only repeated himself during...
...rebel prisoners. Paul went into Iviza next day to find out what was going on, saw scores of dead bodies on the floor of the prison. He recognized many of the faces. By that time he was ready to go. When a German destroyer came to evacuate foreigners he took his family and an Ivicenco friend aboard. What was going to happen to the friends who could not get away he knew all too well...