Word: tres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boys had journeyed entirely under sail. After many days at sea they put in at Magdalena Bay, near the tip of Lower California, but the Mexican coast guard sent them on their way. Days later they missed their next landfall, Cape San Lucas, sighting no land until the Tres Marias Islands, south of the Gulf of California, hove into view. Thence they sped to Banderas Bay with a tropical typhoon whistling in their wake. They said they had put in for supplies, but Puerto Vallarta authorities questioned them, detained them after hearing the whole story...
Under the Curtis-Martin ownership the Inquirer started downhill to failure. Combining it with the famed old Public Ledger failed to slow its descent. In 1934 the Inquirer bounced back on the Paternõtres when the Curtis-Martin interests could no longer pay off their recurrent notes. Still carrying the old Ledger nameplate,* the Inquirer was administered for its absentee owners by Publisher Charles A. Tyler. Morning competition in Philadelphia was supplied by rambunctious New Dealer J. (for Julius) David Stern and his bustling Record (circulation: 221,927). When the Paternõtres sold...
...ranking : 1) Defense of Self 2) Defense of Family 3) Defense of Another 4) Defense of Country 5) Defense of Honor of Family 6) Defense of Honor of Self 7) Defense of Property against Burglars 8) Defense of Property against Tres passers Interpreting, Dr. Allport pointed out that the situations at the top are those with the strongest biological or instinctive basis. Personal safety is first. An unconditioned baby will struggle against physical restraint. That defense of family, defense of another, defense of country rank next seems to show an instinctive linking of personal safety with community security...
...born 64 years ago in Philadelphia. When she was 24 she met Jules Patenôtre, the French Ambassador, at a Washington party, was married to him by the late Cardinal Gibbons. A son, Raymond, was born at Atlantic City in 1900. Soon thereafter the Patenôtres went abroad to live. Raymond grew up a Frenchman. Mme Patenôtre who has visited the U. S. about ten times in 30 years, had little interest in the Philadelphia Inquirer when her brother's will dumped it into her lap. Gladly she sold her 51% to the late Cyrus...
...hard-pouf, pouf, it was nothing at all! . . . I do not think anyone ever made $25,000 more easily. . . . The reception we received here was marvelous! Never has anyone so generously . . . greeted us, not even in New York. . . . I wish to give thanks to these Dallas people-'tres gentil...