Word: ve
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seized a scarlet evening dress from the "Stag Line," whirled it out on the floor. Her sibilant voice was gushing in his ear. "Y'know, I'm a delegate from Latvia, but I haven't been to a single meeting. I've been up in a fellow's room in the Law School since Thursday afternoon." A blank-faced silver-spangled gown cut in. He executed a delicate...
Paramount and Fenway--"I've Got Your Number." Joan Blendell and Glenda Farrell with their usual support provide their own version of good clean fun. Well, it's good anyway...
...wanted to get an appointment to the Academy from his native State none was available. But he got in to see President Cleveland and asked for a Presidential appointment. Cleveland made a grimace: "I'm a little disappointed over this Annapolis business. Some of the youngsters I've sent there haven't turned out so brilliantly." "I will succeed," promised John Henry, aged 14. He did succeed, graduating in 1892, serving with the Marines in the Spanish War, in Panama, Santo Domingo, and China. He was a strict disciplinarian, a hard worker, an able officer...
...small steel cone attached to the 250-lb. magnet into one of the incisions, switched on a 3½-h.p. current. Nothing happened. The cone was drawn out, inserted in the second incision. After one breathless minute there was a tiny click. Seven voices cried as one: "We've...
...upstairs in a building and knocked on a door. A janitor told Uncle Harry that they were all sleeping. "Do you see?" said Uncle Harry. "That's the Advocate." Then he took me up the street and told me we were going into the CRIMSON, an old rival. "We've got to scoop them," was all I could hear, and the presses were not running, nor were they anything like you see in the movies. "That's the CRIMSON," said Uncle Harry as though he had won a battle, but I told him that I did not care about...