Word: vear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Edgar Bergen is a 34-vear-old Delta Upsilon from Northwestern. Born in Chicago of Swedish parents, raised in Decatur, he was a talented ventriloquist, magician and odd-jobs-man before he enrolled in the speech department. At Northwestern he scraped up $35 to have Charlie McCarthy made by a wood carver named Charlie Mack. The model was an Evanston newsboy. After college, Bergen and McCarthy took a job in a vaudeville house near Chicago's stockyards, doing four shows a day for $8 a week and enduring a smell Charlie didn't notice. Bergen's radio and motion picture...
Once more last week members of the Pope's household told newshawks that the 79-vear-old Holy Father is not well Afflicted with endocarditis, Pius XI sweats much, sleeps little, walks with difficulty. His once vigorous voice is low, indistinct. Because he is rapidly losing the use of his legs Vatican officials declared that it might soon be necessary to carry the Father wherever he goes. Chief reason for the current decline in his health, they pointed out, is the civil war in Spain, on which Papal Secretary of State Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli has daily conferred with...
...rallying 242,000 petitioners, 88,000 more than necessary. Instead of voting for or against Repeal in November, Ohio voters will ballot on whether or not to hold such a referendum. The Dry maneuver lessened the possibility of 36 States ratifying the 21st Amendment before the end of the vear...
...Frenchman Darius Milhaud's Cristophe Colomb (written to the libretto of French Ambassador Paul Claudel), Czech Jaromir Weinberger's Schwanda, scheduled for performance at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera next year. It was Kleiber's enterprising programs, as well as his sound musicianship, which won him a reengagement for next vear with the Philharmonic...