Word: filles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Author Peters writes at a loose canter, half businessman style, half hobbledygee, on the differences between English and U. S. hunting, kennel management, riding, cubbing, manners et al., helps fill his book by generous quotations, hunting songs, a nostalgic chapter on hunting with the Quorn, the Pytchley, other famed English hunts. With modest justice he calls his book "the random findings of an American business man who would that he could have been born a sportsman." Another sample of his seat on Pegasus: "Let us not forget that it makes a very great difference where...
...would like to know whether it is really expected that Italy should order her soldiers to put corks on the points of their bayonets and her aviators to fill their bombs with cologne water. . . . Stockholm should say whether it desires our aviators before proceeding with a bombardment to release a couple of comrades in a parachute to ascertain whether there is a Swedish physician in the neighborhood...
...stockmarket made editors clamor for Wall Street news. United Press did not even furnish stockmarket quotations when Elmer Conrad Walzer, after a few years of teaching and a turn at reporting, became UP's financial editor in 1926. As editors expanded their business section, UP geared itself to fill more space, hired specialists, furnished columnists, commentators and quotations...
Captain Leavy White has been shifted from his forward position to a guard post, teaming up with Jack Damper. In addition to Dampeer there will be at least two other Sophomores in the starting lineup. George Lowman will continue to fill the center post of Bill Gray, who has been out with a knee injury since before vacation. Bill Shirk, another Sophomore, makes a new forward...
...almost automatically become the Farmer-Labor candidate for Governor in 1936. What Governor Olson obviously needed was a Senator pro tern, someone who would take the job for a. year, then quit willingly and help elect Floyd Olson to the U. S. Senate. Who would be so likely to fill this bill as the man whom Mr. Olson had picked to be Governor after him? Next autumn they could politely change places on the ticket and support each other for office...