Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fifth night before the event likewise was unfavorable and again the plan had to be postponed. The night from the fourth to third day before Nov. 8, however, gave Elser an opportunity to fix his timing mechanism in the prepared dynamite chamber...
...died one day last week, just before dawn. With this 220-lb., 6-foot-2-inch monolith died the last hopes of those who believe that the frost is getting through the seams of the U. S. Constitution. With four New Dealers on the Supreme Court bench and a fifth to take Pierce Butler's place, snowy-whiskered Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes will no longer control the balance of power...
Lewis Mumford will speak tonight in the New Lecture Hall on "Economic Backgrounds," the fifth in the series of six lectures on "The Background of American Architecture...
Gypsy Smith began evangelizing New York last month in The Bronx, delivered 13 sermons in rich, old Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, moved uptown again last fortnight. He winds up his engagement this week in no less august a fane than the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, with Bishop William Thomas Manning presiding. To his audiences, Gypsy Smith's black eyes have seemed as keen as ever, his voice mellow, his frame limber. (Only last year he married for the second time: a 26-year-old to whom he had long been "my hero.") Never a ranter, Gypsy Smith...
...last ten years. Kaufman's unequaled record: at least one show on Broadway every year since 1921. Fifteen of those shows Burns Mantle has included in various annual volumes of the Best Plays. One of them (You Can't Take It With You) had the fifth longest run (837 performances) in the history of Broadway; 14 others ran close to 200 performances or better. Two won the Pulitzer Prize. Twenty were sold to the movies for a total of over $1,500,000. Further, Kaufman ranks as one of the best directors in show business...