Word: worded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aspire to take his place, nor do I think that you would wish me to carry on, unvaried, a tradition so personal to him. But as this is the first Christmas since our Coronation, the Queen and I feel that we want to send to you all a further word of gratitude for the love and loyalty you gave us from every quarter of the Empire during this unforgettable year now drawing...
General Vicente Rojo announced and Barcelona repeated that there would be no executions, no pillaging, and a pardon for the defenders of the cathedral if they would surrender. All this was changed when word seeped through from Rightist territory that the best-hated Rightist General in Spain, Miguel Aranda of the siege of Oviedo, was leading the relief column against Teruel and none other than Jos Moscardó, hero of the Alcazar, was re-enacting that same siege inside Teruel. Tanks rumbled against the cathedral within the hour. Six-inch guns fired point blank into the seminary, the bank...
...Christmas broadcast, his halting voice strained with emotion. In effect what the King had to tell his people was that the great effort to overcome his speech impediment, an effort which he has made for years and, which carried him through his Coronation without skipping or mispronouncing a single word (TIME, May 24), was too great for him to continue broadcasting...
Boners. Other word news of the week: New York City's Board of Examiners exhibited a list of boners by college-graduated candidates who were asked to illustrate the meaning of certain words in examinations for teaching licenses...
...Fighting all over Europe and the U. S., Carnera, a bewildered, grinning hulk, probably earned a million dollars. His managers got most of it. He threw most of his away, then disappeared from U. S. sport pages after Negro Leroy Haynes knocked him out twice. Two months ago word came from France that Primo Carnera had been knocked out by a sparring partner while training for a comeback...