Word: twelfths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bushy-browed Democratic Senator William Julius Harris over John Marshall Slaton. One issue of their campaign was the fact that 15 years ago Mr. Slaton, as Governor, had commuted the death sentence of Leo Frank, later lynched. Eleven of the State's Congressmen were renominated while the twelfth, Representative Thomas Montgomery Bell, was defeated by Judge John Woods. A run-off primary was necessary to decide the gubernatorial nomination...
...motorcade of 50 cars without licenses the 200 took Oliver Moore 15 mi. to his home in Wilson County, there strung him from a tree. As his body twisted and writhed, all shot at it until he was dead; first lynchee in North Carolina since 1921, twelfth...
...people stirred with excitement, young King shot at the 16-yd. line, Casey at 17, Scott at 18, Crampton at 21. The guns banged loudly, 25 times each in the tense stillness of the shoot-off. Scott missed his second bird, Crampton his sixth and eighth. Casey missed his twelfth, leaving young King ahead until he missed his 14th. Then Casey missed his 19th, Scott and King shot along even until the 22nd bird. There Scott cracked, dropped three birds in a row while young King coolly ran out his string for the championship...
...round the locked gates of the castle. Scotsmen climbed nearby Hunter's Hill, gazed solemnly at the rain-drenched 40-ft. bonfire-pile, waiting these many days to flash the news to the country. Home Secretary John Robert Clynes who must be present at the birth, celebrated his twelfth day of waiting at divine service in Kirriemuir ("Thrums" of Sir James Matthew Barrie's stories). At Cowes, Isle of Wight, the royal yacht Victoria & Albert upped her anchor, cut the telephone cable which for three weeks had been directly connected with Glamis Castle...
...sultry evening in the House of Lords last week, peers of the realm reclined at their ease on red leather benches thinking, most of them, of "The Twelfth," immemorial August opening of Britain's grouse season. That most pedantic Laborite peer, snowy-haired Baron Parmoor, Lord President of the Council, had the floor. The 68-year-old Conservative Leader of the House of Lords, James Edward Hubert Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury, co-heir to the Barony of Ogle, started from a daydream just as Lord Parmoor was saying...