Word: opened
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Colombia: Declared a legal holiday, held open-air masses, military reviews. Villagers of San Pedro Alejandro eagerly awaited a golden wreath being flown from New York by Pan American Airways. In the farmhouse where Bolivar died, a golden crown was unveiled in the death chamber by President Olaya Herrera...
...appointment so roiled George V that he altered the traditional "His Majesty has been graciously pleased to approve . . ." to "The King, on the recommendation of Scullin, has appointed . . ." No such blunderbuss phrase appeared last week: His Majesty was most graciously pleased to approve Lord Willing don. It was an open secret that the choice of Viscount Willingdon was King George's own, that he prided himself in the knowledge that by so doing he had unsnarled a nice political tangle...
...British Who's Who, issued annually at this time, Mrs. Helen Wills Moody was included for the first time, her tennis championships being listed under "recreations." Robert Tyre Jones Jr. of Atlanta, open and amateur golf champion of Britain was left out, as was William Tatem Tilden II. Ernest Hemingway joined the U. S. literary contingent of Sinclair Lewis, Henry Louis Mencken, Theodore Dreiser, Eugene Gladstone O'Neill. Paul Robeson, Negro tenor and actor, not listed in Who's Who in America, is listed in Britain's Who's Who. Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
...Foremost golfer, probably of all time . . . winner of open and amateur championships of Great Britain and the United States . . . [refused] to accept a gift of $50,000 to buy a home . . . unofficial ambassador . . . retiring nature...
Laureate Masefield apologizes for not being an actual thruster, explains how a poet may open his casement on perilous seas: "I have taken a footman's modest part in countless hunts, and have also hunted on a bicycle. When one knows, as I did, every inch of the wide countryside, every path, stile, gate and gap, as well as the workings of a fox's mind, one can hunt, even on foot, with great success, on cold-hunting days. . . . After all, poetry is not a written record of what one does. Were it so, Shakespeare would have been...