Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cold afternoon last week a pale, dark-haired young woman, supported by a nurse and a detective, entered a Manhattan court, staggered to a chair and slumped back with her head against the wall. The corridor and waiting rooms outside the justice's chambers were crowded. A group of reporters stood in the corner. At a long mahogany table facing the Supreme Court Justice's desk sat the young lady's parents. Across the table from them sat a young man with a belligerently cheerful smile. With him was his lawyer. "It's real love...
...week's end, as North Star churned southward, with four feet of Penguin's, bobbed tail still hanging over the rail, Dr. Poulter was pleased with his monster's performance. Whether or not it would negotiate Antarctic ice better than it had U. S. roads, it had pulled in more publicity for an Admiral Byrd expedition than the publicity-wise Admiral himself...
Many a U. S.. politician, fat or lean, wise or lard-headed, hit the 1940 trail last week...
...Hard-plugging Herbert Hoover toiled in Chicago last week, conferring, dining, planning with top Midwest GOP conservatives, left two impressions: 1) he will be "available" in 1940, 2) he would prefer Tom Dewey in the vice presidential role...
...night last week 14 men met in Washington's exclusive Cosmos Club for dinner. Ostensible purpose: to honor bouncing young Herman B. Wells, president of Indiana University. Real purpose: a get-acquainted meeting for Paul Vories McNutt and the Janizariat of the New Deal...