Word: america
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...AMERICA IN MIDPASSAGE-Charles A. & Mary R. Beard-Macmillan...
...Chicago's Walter Jacobs & Albert Weiss: the open pair championship of the American Contract Bridge League, outplaying in other pairs of top-notch players from 21 States, Canada and South America; at Pittsburgh...
...conditioned Park Avenue office, said Picture Post's Hastings, "is equipped with a dictaphone, a telephone extension system which takes 20 incoming calls at the same time, and a brass spittoon. Joe has no use for the latter, but the utensil is traditional in every public place in America." For breakfast he has coffee, toast, fruit juice and cereal; for dinner, swordfish...
Gertrude, the average New Yorker's wife, came from an old New England family. "In Gertrude's home in the South it was felt that she might have done better for herself." They were married as soon as they had the price of an automobile, for "in America you'd no more propose to a girl without a car than marry her without a ring...
Glittering in a gold-sequined gown, her hair swept up, her feet in spun-glass slippers, Marva Trotter Louis, wife of Heavyweight Boxing Champion Joe Louis, officiated at the coronation of St. Louis' Negro society king and queen. Introduced as "leader of Chicago society . . . America's premier lady of fashion," Mrs. Louis was accompanied by a local physician, who informed all, "I am a personal friend of Joe Louis." Interviewed by newshawks, Mrs. Louis said of her husband: "He never gets rowdy in the home. I sure wish I had his poise and calm...