Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...adiposity died in Los Angeles last week. He was Theodore Valanzula, who three weeks ago was side-showing at Coney Island, N. Y., as "Tom Ton, 960 Ibs." He had begun to get fatter, felt miserable, wanted to see his wife and three children. So he took a baggage car across the country. Home, a baggage truck transported him from train to hospital, where the institutional derrick hoisted him to bed. He had gained 100 pounds in the fortnight of illness. Doctors say his mortal half-ton died of myocarditis, dropsy and suffocation of the heart...
Died. Meyer London, 54, Congressman 1915-19 and 1921-23, sole Socialist then in Congress; when run down by an automobile driven by Louis Greenspan (who likewise rammed the car of Jack Applebaum) at First Ave. and 18th St., Manhattan...
...What argument broke the strike of the Renault motor car workers...
...race for the international motor sweepstakes. Hearst-Editor Brisbane acted as chief referee-a post held in past years at Indianapolis by Henry Ford, Charles M. Schwab. . . . After something more than three and a half hours of breathtaking skids and recoveries, the judges decided to flag down the first car passing the 400-mile mark as the winner-declined to let the race proceed until someone was killed. Frank Lockhart of California, driving a Miller Special at an average speed of 94.63 miles an hour, crossed the 400-mile mark first, received $20,000 for winning the race...
TOPPER?Thorne Smith?McBride ($2). Cosmo Topper is a Better Babbitt of the East Orange, N. J., type, early thwarted into respectability by his dyspeptic wife and his commutation ticket. The fun starts when he buys the low-hum, nickel-plated car which carried sprightly George and Marion Kerby into the next world. Passing the tree where they came to grief, Topper is joined by spiritistic versions of the Kerbys, and during the adventures that follow he comes to love them as childish prankers. The belated release of Topper is rather pathetic, but mirth is the tale's mother element...