Word: worded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brussels, President Roosevelt's perennial Ambassador-at-Large, grey & graceful Norman Hezekiah Davis, was encouraged by all to make the first speech at the Conference. He did so. If the President and Mr. Davis had cared to take Mr. Eden at his solemn word, they could have proposed vigorous action to "quarantine world lawlessness," and the United Kingdom would have been bound to follow in giving the Conference a shove in that direction. Instead, the keynote struck by Ambassador Davis was: "We come to this Conference to study with our colleagues the problems which concern...
...rugs hurriedly crated out of Ethiopia when the Negus and entourage fled. Behind the high walls the Emperor strides along beside his elderly cousin, Ras Kassa, on their morning walks. His favorite reading is, ironically, "diplomatic history," but most of his serious hours are occupied with the 90,000-word story of his life which he is laboriously turning out in Amharic. The 14-year-old Duke of Harrar has been enrolled at King's College, Taunton, and shy, reticent, 17-year-old Princess Sehai, who professes a liking for Shakespeare and "cool English poetry," has deserted Bath...
...Wausau, Wis., Mrs. Clara Kohl, 50, applied to her local relief bureau for funds to divorce her husband in order that she might remarry. She was finally refused after the district attorney ruled that divorce fees did not constitute "relief" within the legal meaning of the word...
...unsuccessfully - with Henry Ford, the Ku Klux Klan, small fry from coast to coast. On a second trip-this time to escape the still more savage intrigues of his comrades- he hit on the idea of an "American folkic program," to be headed by Flyer Lindbergh, spread the good word about Hitler but got little money. In Detroit he married a plain, sensible librarian...
Planned and produced to earn the plaudits of those who shiver with ecstasy at mere mention of the word "Broadway," "Broadway Melody of 1938," current University offering, may draw the harsher criticism of those who want something more than a hodge-podge even in their musicals...