Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...wife and her dog, which understands Russian only; beauteous Mrs. Eric Sevareid, wife of CBS's Paris correspondent, and her month-old twins; a weeping woman who had to leave her Norse husband and two children; oilmen from Russia, the Balkans, Arabia; swarming European-Americans in third class who gabbled in Italian, Norwegian, Danish; enough black-tied plutocrats, equally scared, to inspire Captain George V. Richardson to dub his cargo "refugees in dinner coats"; seminarians from the North American (Catholic) College in Rome, relaxing in sport clothes as bright as Joseph's raiment. Also bound westward (from Ireland...
...Memphis' heartstrings by refusing to enforce State Prohibition. During World War I, when the Army demanded abolition of the red-light district, the trulls quietly packed up and moved their business to shuttered houses on South Main Street, Vance Avenue, Mulberry Street and thereabouts. In the '305-third decade of his reign-Ed Crump continued to let Memphis go its primrose way. Memphis was sinful, all right, but it was never loud and raw about it. Memphis was the kind of town where the rich, old Second Presbyterian Church could transact its godly business within bottle...
...response, once more Canadian armament was given a slap in the rump. After a four-hour meeting with the War Committee, Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King announced in Parliament that "sweeping measures" would be taken. A third and fourth division would be raised by enlistment; the first division, already abroad, would be reinforced: the second division sent abroad as soon as possible. To speed the lagging Empire Air-Training Plan, the Hon. Charles Gavan ("Chubby") Power, twice-wounded, once-decorated veteran of World War I, was appointed head of a new Ministry of National Defense for Air. Work...
...forum opened when an unreconstructed Springfield Republican, William Bell Chilton, told a hostile audience: "I wouldn't vote for anybody for a third term, with the exception of Jesus Christ." Mrs. G. A. Crotts, a Nashville housewife, answered sharply: "I want Roosevelt for a third term, a fourth term or as many terms as he wants." Then she ran the gamut of Presidential possibilities, called Dewey "a little two-for-a-nickel lawyer," Taft "the perpetual whiner of the Senate and No. 1 bore," Willkie "head of the Southern Power Corporation when the companies robbed the few people able...
Uppermost in everyone's mind was whether or not mustachioed little Wilbur Shaw, driving the same Italian-made Maserati with which he won the race last year, could win his third 500-a feat that had been accomplished only once (by Lou Meyer, now retired). If he could, he would become the first driver to win twice in succession one of the most punishing sport events...