Word: brentwood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went Denver M. Wright one day last week. With him. beside the two young lions he had bought from a circus for $75, were two friends, a barber and a plumber. Somewhere in the hills were his two sons, lost. Behind him, horrified, was the St. Louis suburb of Brentwood, where he had long been respected as a manufacturer and a member of the school board. All around him was hostility. In Mississippi County waited a sheriff with an insanity warrant. In Cape Girardeau County waited 800 vigilantes determined that he should hunt no lions there. Over the rough roads...
...Commerce, Mo., went the expedition. There Hunter Wright learned that newsreel photographers had withdrawn from the chase, that his wife was on her way from Brentwood to stop the hunt, that a game warden had abducted his 14-year-old son Charles. "The boy and I are going out in the country a piece," said the warden. "By the time we're back maybe Wright will listen to reason...
Southeast Missouri has many wild acres, but no one therein has ever encountered a lion. To Denver M. Wright, big game hunter, member of the St. Louis school board and onetime police commissioner of the suburb of Brentwood, this suggested something. Last week from a stranded circus he bought two lionesses. One night this week he intended to release them on a 26,000-acre forest near the Tennessee border. Next morning with two airedales and six hounds he expected to hunt the lionesses to their death. Said he: ''You can't hunt big game in Missouri...
...black-haired Olin Dutra of Brentwood, Calif.: the Metropolitan Open at Lido Country Club (Long Beach, L. I.); with two great finishing rounds of 68, 65 for a total...
...Philosophy at the University of Chicago, onetime actor of melodrama with a kerosene troupe in Ohio, onetime Broadway idol, all his life a student of literature and music; of a heart attack after a hard game of tennis with his wife (Doris Kenyon Sills) at their home in Brentwood Heights near Los Angeles. Eight years ago Sills told Louis Sherwin, colyumist of the New York Evening Post, why he left philosophy for acting. Said he: "I went on the stage, you poor ape, because I thought it would give me more leisure to read. . . . What I would rather have done...