Word: weekends
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...political quarterback Franklin Roosevelt returned on the U.S.S. Houston last weekend toward his "humiture"-ridden, politically fermenting country, he could have added up his political score, based on the week's primary elections in six States, about as follows: Kentucky-an all-important, extremely satisfying New Deal touchdown in the renomination of Majority Leader "Dear Alben" Barkley for the Senate...
...remarked a chastening of the fantastic extremes which make newspaper copy and which nobody ever wears. Most couturiers offered clothes that were flattering but wearable. Declaring that she aimed "to clothe rather than astonish," Designer Gabrielle Chanel stole a march on her fellow big shots by opening a full weekend ahead of them, capitalizing on her noted simplicity. Near the centre line of fashion were oldtimer Chanel's wool frocks with ruffles at wrist and neck, forward or "profiled" berets, dark velvet afternoon and dinner dresses, strapless evening gowns...
...tear gas. At the end of the day 52 people had been killed, some 70 more badly injured-but not in fighting. The front engine of a five-car, two-engine train on the Jamaica Central Railway, packed with Kingston citizens going to the country for the Liberation Day weekend, left the rails going up a steep grade outside Balaclava. The rear engine kept going, pushed the front engine over an embankment, piled four of the five coaches up on each other in a splintered, twisted mass like a smashed accordion. The coaches lay crumpled for hours in a river...
...when he suddenly had to go to bed with stomachache & fever. His doctor declared that when the governor was in Louisville his drinking water was poisoned. To gather himself for the stretch run this week and next, he retired by ambulance to the executive mansion at Frankfort over the weekend while Candidate Barkley paused for breath at the Seelbach Hotel in Louisville. Mrs. Chandler and Daughters Mimi and Marcella pinch-hit at Happy's meetings. Said loyal Mrs. Chandler: "Happy is absolutely certain...
...broad bosom of the Pacific Ocean enfolded Franklin Roosevelt last weekend. To its gusts he could throw the heavy cares of the Presidency, to its rollers the carking complications of politics. Behind for a while lay the names of Barkley, Thomas, Adams, McCarran, McAdoo. Ahead lay marlin, sailfish, tuna, albacore, and the wild wahoo. His secretaries put away a sheaf of delivered speeches. His fishing aides aboard the cruiser Houston unpacked a trunkful of rods, reels and tackle. Instead of shining paragraphs for the electorate, now there would be shining spoons, dancing feathers for big fish. While Harry Hopkins administered...