Word: households
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Liechtenstein pressed into a flowered parlor, smiled, shook his hand, offered felicitations. The old white-haired man nodded pleasantly, murmured thanks. Cataracts, he explained, were impairing the vision of both his eyes and demanded the attention of Viennese specialists, otherwise he would surely be at home with his "household."' By "household" Prince Johann Maria Franz Placide, Prince of Liechtenstein, Duke of Tropau and of Jägerndorf meant the 11,500 inhabitants of his tiny (65 sq. mi.) independent principality, smallest in population in Europe. These inhabitants, the Prince well knew, were celebrating the completion of the seventieth year...
Near present Hebron, the American School of Archaeology has found Kirjath Sepher, which the Israelites captured in the time of Joshua. Interesting are the remains of a wool-dyeing factory, a small household altar of Samuel's time...
...land of Acre," the Metropolitan Museum of Art has found better examples of 12th and 13th century A.D. war, commercial and household goods than it had been able to find in Europe, where such things have been destroyed, lost or remodeled. Palestine, in those bleak centuries, was a European province. Leading crusaders lived luxuriously and busily. When the Mohammedans finally drove them out, their goods were abandoned. Looters could not find them all. Hence the Metropolitan Museum's delvers made rich cultural finds at the isolated fortress of Montfort, old headquarters of the Hospitalers of Our Lady...
...Herbert Hoover carries no timidity of defeat in his heart. He has the amazing spiritual leadership to make each law-abiding household want to do its bit. Governor Smith says it can't be done. With Herbert Hoover we know it CAN be done...
...inhabitants of New York City, ''Diamond LiP' means only one thing and that is a smart, scheming, successful harlot. Mae West, buxom actress, is chiefly responsible for making this meaning a household word. Her play, Diamond Lil, in which she performs the leading role of a dive-keeper's mistress, has been a smash-hit on Broadway since early spring...