Word: downs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ensued a wrangle of three hours duration which ended only when the owner of the bakery patronized by His Holiness rushed down to the jail where his deliveryman was detained, unlocked and unsealed the box, exclaiming: "You see it is only bread!"
Married. Bernice, daughter of Walter Percy Chrysler, motor maker; and Edgar William Garbisch, Manhattan cotton broker, onetime (1924) West Point & all-American footballer; in Manhattan. After the wedding, the Garbisches sat down to a 30-in. tall cake in smart Sherry's Restaurant with 1,000 guests including Mr...
The epilog was a jolly lampoon of contemporary foibles, political, artistic, social. Two constables debated upon the dangerous possibilities of two paintings, one blank, one hung upside down.* Three party leaders, a Roman (Stanley Baldwin), a Druid (David Lloyd George), and a Scotchman (Ramsay MacDonald), "fitted with clockwork and vocal...
Foolish Doodlebugs. Neither doodlebugs nor forked sticks nor any instrument known to man will locate oil under the surface. The best a geologist can do with all the tools of science at his service is to locate underground formations where oil might have seeped. Thus the geologist can prevent useless...
Technique. The fronton is a three-walled court about two-thirds as long as a football field. As in all court games, a player scores a point by acing his opponent or making him fault. Winning score varies from 6 (elimination singles) to 30 (elimination doubles). In elimination singles matches...