Word: borings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...astounding fortitude of girls "in trouble'' sustained her, stifled her groans, betrayed her labor to her parents by not so much as a grimace. After her parents went to bed, she went to the bathroom. There, alone and without sound, crouching in a tormented daze, she bore her son. She thought, she swore in court last week, that he was born dead. After a rest the girl gathered her infant in her arms, mounted to the tenement roof. She walked to the neighboring airshaft, planning, she swore, to toss self and child over the edge. She fainted...
...Empire Salesman, Edward VIII bore in manly silence the fact that eight out of nine British planes which took off on the recent race to South Africa failed to arrive (TIME, Oct. 12). At the first opportunity, Salesman Edward's private secretary Major Hon. Alexander Hardinge released for publication this boost: "The King will be glad if the Secretary of State will convey to Squadron-Leader Swain his Majesty's congratulations on his fine achievement in breaking the altitude record with all-British equipment." Part of Hero Swain's equipment was a new type of air-tight...
...Oregon, where he once walked out on strike with IWWorkers. He married a lumberman's daughter, still has big lumber and paper interests. Until last year Ben Alexander ran Masonite from Wausau, Wis., his home town. There he gave the city an airport, was rated First Citizen, bore the distinction of having installed the first home bar in Wausau. Now Ben Alexander lives in Chicago's Drake Towers with his dark, slim wife and two adopted children...
Help Wanted. On his way to the convention, A. B. A. President Robert Vedder Fleming of Washington's Riggs Bank had stopped off in Spokane, Wash, long enough to get himself named "Chief Black Hawk" by the Flathead Indians. This warlike title he bore gracefully. Mr. Fleming, amiable and solid as he is jolly, reminded the bankers that during the year Congress and the Administration had given A. B. A. "courteous and attentive consideration." Banks had been excluded from the provisions of the law taxing undistributed earnings. "Splendid cooperation" had been received from the Government in a survey aimed...
...addition to this surprise package of sacred literature, the profane reading of members was supplied with a heavy, repetitious, 499-page regional novel revolving around the dwellers of the Mississippi Delta country south of New Orleans. With a central character named Sister Kalavich, a proud, self-possessed girl who bore an illegitimate son, defied her neighbors, lived alone and achieved a life of harmony with nature, Green Margins contains almost all the essentials of a good novel except a narrative to hold it together or a clearly-defined purpose that would give its episodes significance. Pursued by hearty, headstrong Mitch...