Word: usefully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Notification indoors at Albany, the crowd pressed up to the Assembly Chamber doors to try for seats. Nine out of ten had to stay outside and hear the speeches through, the amplifiers. Among those who stayed outside was a tall, familiar figure with the crutches it has had to use for the past several years, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the friend and believer who placed Candidate Smith in nomination in 1920, 1924, 1928. With Mrs. Roosevelt, he sat on the outdoor platform, huddled from the rain under a canopy of State Troopers' waterproof coats...
...cameras use brighter lights, need glass partitions or windows to prevent recording the clicking of the machines, boast much more involved paraphernalia than ordinary cinemachines. Greater conveniences exist in Hollywood, yet many a cinemactor has blanched before his first "talkie" ordeal. Difficult therefore was the role of the polyglot actors in Paris. And difficult also the job of the cameramen stumbling over and struggling with old rose-covered chairs and large horseshoe table...
Tilden was not invited to participate in the East-West matches. Fretted, Friend Hunter refused to play, said a Tildenless tournament was "not representative." Said P. Schuyler Van Bloem, vice president of the Eastern Lawn Tennis Association: "It would be unsportsmanlike to use a player against whom charges are pending." Thus the player-writer rule rapped the fingers of Tilden. Ready commentators said Tilden will play no more tennis, will go into vaudeville. The first prediction was wrong; Tilden accepted the bid to play in the Newport Casino tournament, on whose cup he has two legs. The other prediction...
Simultaneously, The American Druggist statisticketed U.S. women: More than half use rouge; 71 in 100 use perfume; 90 in 100 use face powder; 73 in 100 use toilet water; 15 in 100 use lipstick...
...subsidiary). This code consists of 5-letter words, which can be joined in pairs to enjoy the 10-letter rate. But it could be deciphered by anyone with a code catalog. If Mr. Pancake had wished to be cunning and sly, he might have agreed in advance to use the catalog in this way: Instead of sending the word OCDIV ("Have received no letter from you since . . ."), he might have chosen the fifth word following, OCEHE, and so on throughout the message, the recipient being forewarned of the plan...