Word: worded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...true. In the story Nolan is arrested for plotting with Aaron Burr to found a kingdom in the Southwest. At his trial he exclaims, "Damn the United States! I wish I may never hear of the United States again!", is therefor sentenced to perpetual imprisonment at sea with no word from home. Like Uncle Tom's Cabin, Hale's short story continued to be read long after its immediate purpose was forgotten. More than half a million copies were printed in the U. S. and England. It was translated into Spanish and printed in Peru to stir patriotism...
...soldiers, 2) gangsters, 3) emotional triangles. To balance its defects, They Gave Him A Gun, no masterpiece but a fast-moving, adult screen play, has the ad vantage of highly proficient performances by its three principals, notably Gladys George in her first major role since Valiant Is the Word for Carrie. Good shot: Jimmy's version of the feat that got him the Croix de Guerre...
...time of his death, it was not because of this one fight that liquor interests last week badly needed a new front man. On the eve of the Kentucky Derby fortnight ago in Louisville, an assembly of liquor men who make up the Distilled Spirits Institute received word from California that the State Legislature had passed and sent to Governor Frank Merriam an "antidiscrimination" liquor bill not unlike Missouri's. Prime purpose of the bill is to protect proud California's wine growers, but provisions are broad enough to exclude alcoholic imports from other States...
...boys, never misses a track meet if he can help it and likes to rest his brain with carpentry in the Hartswick basement. He did not think up all the Old Gold rebuses himself, but he passed on all 90 of them as submitted by a staff of word-wanglers before they were converted into oafish little wash drawings for the series. The thing was managed so that only Puzzleman Hartswick knew all the right answers...
...satisfied to stay there in spite of one who declaimed: "If they gave me hell and Texas, I'd rent out Texas and live in hell." Oklahoma was one long dust storm. He felt he could not improve on the seventh-grade essayist who wrote: "Dust, that terrible word dust, when we hear the word our mind turns to thinking of coughing, choking particles that come from somewhere to make our days unpleasant. . . . One thing we can be proud of United States dust storms are the latest thing...