Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Smith and myself with the delegates, prior to and during the Convention, we were able to report to the Volunteer Committee in New York City . . . that there would be twelve votes cast for Mr. Willkie on the first ballot, 20 on the second, 25 on the third, with a possible 28 votes as a maximum. The actual vote cast was twelve on the first ballot, 17 on the second, 19 on the third . . . and a unanimous vote of 32 on the sixth ballot...
France's Third Republic was always glad to honor les amis de France. After World War I's Armistice, with a gracious Gallic gesture, France established in the famed old Palace of Fontainebleau near Paris the only school ever created by one nation for the exclusive benefit of another. There U. S. artists and musicians have studied under first-rate Frenchmen each summer since; in off hours could relax in the Forest of Fontainebleau's shady green aisles, feed ring-snouted carp in the pond by the palace, down drinks and French pastry at sidewalk cafes...
Edna Wallace Hopper, 76, self-styled "feminine fountain of youth," had her face lifted for the third time...
Horton's performance in Springtime for Henry is not solely a labor of love. His contract calls for a minimum of $500 a week. He gets a third of the gross when it amounts to more than $1,500. Only permanent member of Horton's company besides himself is Marjorie Lord, who was discovered by Horton in Saratoga, N. Y. The other two characters required for the play are hired in advance by Horton's stage manager, given a dress rehearsal when Horton and Lord arrive in town...
...great ideologues of Communism, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, who really had something to say, had said it so clumsily that old Bolsheviks liked to boast that it had taken them a lifetime to understand the third volume of Das Kapital. Comrade Lenin was somewhat too electric for diaper-stage dialecticians. Comrade Stalin, densely narcotic in Russian, was practically lethal in English. There remained a library of dull, flimsy, semiliterate pamphlets (many of them translated from Russian via German). Moreover, their authors were constantly falling into doctrinal disfavor...