Word: twelfths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Time Marches On to complete his twelfth trek for the movies. This month we learn about the salvation of the new-fangled fishermen of Boston and the old-fashioned fishermen of Gloucester through the retention of the anti-Canadian tariff; the contemplation by the French authorities of abandoning the penal camp in French Guiana (Devil's Island being the famous part) because of the new racket of facilitating escapes; and the psychological and social reasons for the recent militaristic coup in Japan...
...bonuses right & left to Rhode Island War veterans who failed to apply for them within the period originally set by law, ending in 1923. Last week a straight-faced Republican State Senator introduced a bill to pay a $100 bonus to Sergeant Evael O. W. Tnesba of the Twelfth Machine Gun Battalion, asked unanimous consent for its immediate consideration. No objection was made and a Democrat Senator generously seconded the measure. It was passed instantly. When Republicans began to guffaw at the blind liberality of the majority, a shrewd Democratic Senator moved to reconsider the bill, had it referred...
...Gras Carnival was slim, brown-eyed Cora Stanton ("Coco") Jahncke, daughter of Hoover's Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ernest Lee Jahncke, great-granddaughter of Lincoln's Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. A daughter and sister of Carnival Royalty, "Coco" Jahncke was born in 1915 on Twelfth Night (Jan. 6), official opening of the New Orleans Carnival season. That year her father was Rex, Lord of Misrule, King of Carnival. Small "Coco" received a scroll designating her Princess Royal. In 1929 her mother, Cora Van Voorhis Stanton Jahncke, was one of the six lesser Carnival Queens...
...last week at a meeting of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers in Manhattan. Forty years ago a British amateur named Denning spotted a faint blur in the constellation Camelopardus. It was identified as a nebular nucleus, or blob of cosmic matter. This apparently pusillanimous thing was of the twelfth magnitude, far below naked-eye visibility. Astronomers did not bother to name it but set it down by number, I. C. 342, in the Second Index Catalog (1895). With better cameras and telescopes I. C. 342 was found to have faint arms. Then these arms were seen to be tremendously...
...line with this idea, Lyricist Jack Yellen has taken equal parts of Ted Koehler's Truckin' and Irving Berlin's Top Hat, White Tie and Tails, given them a shaking and poured off something called Truckin' In My Tails. The rest of the twelfth production of George White's periodical durbar largely owes its origin to old burlesque acts, old vaudeville turns, old smoking-room stories. Nevertheless, many an item in this tried & true form of entertainment will please those theatre-goers to whom Broadway is a desert waste without a girl show...