Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Third candidate was George E. Hary, ex-promoter of a softball game in which the players were (at least temporarily) mounted on goats. Mr. Hary declared he was going to write a story entitled Where Were You, Mr. Schaefer, When?, climaxed a strenuous campaign by renting a hall over a saloon on Saturday night before election, promising to talk until the opening of the polls Tuesday morning. When he ran out of topics, Mr. Hary sang The Little Man Who Wasn't There, which he dedicated to Congressman Schaefer. Still whispering after 52 hours, Candidate Hary slumped down exhausted...
...Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt and his job as Governor. In November 1938, good Mr. Horner fell ill, straightway became a man of mystery. In the last 17 months probably no more than a dozen people have seen him. His illness has been variously reported: a stroke, a second stroke, a third, a blood clot, a heart spasm, cancer of the throat, pneumonia, diabetes, paralysis...
Kelly & Nash quickly agreed with Mr. Horner on a Horner henchman as the gubernatorial candidate: Harry B. Hershey, 54, a genial party hack. Mr. Kelly, inveterate Third Termite, struck off a heart-rending slogan for last week's primary: "For Roosevelt and Humanity." On primary day Mr. Roosevelt ran fairly well (see p. 14), but Humanity had rough going. While Mr. Stelle was properly crushed by the machine-voters seemed to resent his "seizure" of the Governorship the day before-the Republican vote showed the Kelly-Nash-Horner machine parlous times ahead...
Phase Four: Blockade. Having sunk by its own account one-third of Germany's fighting ships the Allied fleet settled down to the lengthy task of trying to isolate and destroy the rest. First step was the swift and probably very sketchy laying of vast Allied minefields extending from Dutch waters in the North Sea, around the flat, sandy, northern prong of what in less than 24 hours ceased to be Denmark, in the Kattegat right down through the Danish Belts (straits) and then, amazingly, clear across the Baltic to Memel and Lithuania...
...Lucknow, Paul K. Keene of Mussoorie, Mr. & Mrs. Ralph T. Templin of Muttra-sent a manifesto to the Viceroy, the Marquess of Linlithgow. Wrote they: "During the earlier phases of the missionary movement, it was natural to think compartmentally, religion in one compartment, science in another, politics in a third. Sir John Bowring, as a devout churchman, could write the familiar hymn, 'In the Cross of Christ I glory,' and, as the representative of empire, sign, perhaps with the same pen, the treaties forcing the nefarious opium trade upon China. . . . The old smug compartmentalism is gone, never...