Word: nones
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bearded figure in a khaki blouse, arose and loudly interrupted, "I know that Zinoviev ordered his own secretary to kill Stalin!" Said Zinoviev: "I acknowledge that." "The secretary," breathlessly continued Bakayev, "instead of killing Stalin killed himself!" Lecture by Kamenev, With the air of a professor addressing pupils of none too great intelligence and striving to make everything crystal clear, Prisoner Kamenev made his confession at such length that his lecture was interrupted four times by the changing of the soldiers guarding the prisoners' box. Gist of Kam-enev's confession was that Stalin's old enemy...
...consigned to Germany as cargo on the Hindenburg. For each of the tawny, wide-eyed, prick-eared creatures with 'little bumps where the horns are beginning to bud, Rancher Belden collected $100. Clumping about Manhattan in his cowboy boots, ten-gallon hat, the short, jovial "Antelope King" remarked: "None of the fawns was airsick. Whenever they seemed to mind the heat, we just flew a thousand feet higher. The trip was a cinch...
...task that confronted Detroit's coffee-colored, 22-year-old Joe Louis. More specifically, Louis' job last week was to knock out Boston's 33-year-old Jack Sharkey, now back in the ring, after two years' retirement, to secure additional working capital for his none too prosperous Boston barroom...
Alcazar and Alhambra. In broiling summer Madrid were scarcely any Ambassadors or Ministers when the Revolution broke. Of the diplomatic underlings left to run things none has hung on more tenaciously in Madrid than U. S. Third Secretary Eric Wendelin, buttressed by his spunky wife. Last week even the brave diplomatic pups of the Great Powers were about to be whistled home. To 156 U. S. citizens still in Madrid, most of whom have commercial interests there, gallant Mr. Wendelin gave notice that at any moment he might be obliged to close the U. S. Embassy and that every...
...circle, arrow and numeral, the distance and direction of the nearest airport. By last week 58% of the U. S. was air-marked every 15 miles in every direction. Within a few months the entire nation will be thus tagged with a total of 16,000 air markers, almost none of which existed a year ago. Last week the current issue of the National Aeronautic Magazine revealed the name which deserved most credit for this important aeronautical safeguard: Mrs. Phoebe Fairgrave Omlie whom Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt once included in a list of the ten most useful women...