Word: came
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...matter where I turned, every door was closed to me. Banking friends who were lifelong acquaintances came to me secretly and told me they wanted to help but they dared not; that to come to my assistance at this time would bring down upon their heads the resentment and enmity of the most powerful forces on 'The Street.' They told me the gods of Wall Street had practically proclaimed my doom and that nothing on earth could prevent this great money-machine from mowing me down...
...Then came a radio call from the City of New York, which was preceding the Eleanor Boiling. She was at the ice pack. The ice should have been open. It was solid. Although the sea almost never freezes to more than a seven foot depth, vast blocks had piled upon one another to form a 36-ft. barricade of ice at the mouth of the Ross Sea. It extended 400 miles toward the Ross Shelf ice, on whose edge, at Little America, the Byrd party was waiting. Tantalizing was the 150-mi. expanse of clear water between the shelf...
Here is the true story of Supaya-lat (as Author Jesse spells her) and how she came to be Thibaw's queen; how the riotous, sometimes murderous goings-on in the Golden Palace of Mandalay finally brought the British to Upper Burma, to extinguish in one night the picture-book existence of the Lord of All Power and Glory, the Centre of the Universe...
...stable-yard a crowd of men ran about, shouting for water, making mad shadows in the light of flames. Joe Cavens, a jockey who had been suspended for whipping his mount's head in the homestretch of a race, ran three times through the stable door and each time came out with two race horses prancing beside him in an ecstasy of terror. At last his clothing caught fire; he beat it out with his hands and stood with the rest of the race track people, silently watching the flames...
...adults were at work, urchins reveled in the courtyards, ran riot in the long halls. Signor Talamo set aside playrooms for the children, urged Dottoressa Montessori to take them in hand. Thus was founded the first Casa del Bambini. Such establishments, subsequently organized in the U. S. and England, came to be known as "Children's Houses...