Word: gentlest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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News: "Dorothy Pollak, the wistfully beautiful widow of poor Joe (I-Wish-I-Was-in-t he-Grave-with-Him) Pollak, wrapped in grief and shedding tears like pearls, took the stand to describe her musketry, the gentlest wife who ever shot a husband. . . . 'The State has not even established that a murder was committed,' said Lawyer O'Brien. And many thought he was about to argue that Mr. Pollak had been shot in the open season for Pollaks...
...Backbone of the Fleet." The gentlest of swells and a light air from the west made it a perfect review morning, far happier than the morning in 1927 when Calvin Coolidge was first squeamish and had to sit down, then frankly seasick and had to lie prostrate below while the Fleet roared salutes for his momentarily unmanned office. President Hoover stood under the eight-inch guns of the Salt Lake City-10,000 tons, last crisp word in U. S. cruisers-and peered closely through binoculars at the trim masses of war machinery which soon came plowing past. From...