Word: footprints
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...adjudged insane by two alienists. Last week Los Angeles police, on mass guard in the Hollywood area, nabbed a bearded, slender runaway just after a robbery was reported. In his car they found a 2 by 4 bludgeon, at his home shoes which fitted the cast of a footprint near where Delia Bogard was felled. De Witt Clinton Cook, 20, a marauding printer who had learned the fine points of robbery at an Iowa reform school, confessed that he killed Anya Sosoyeva, struck down Delia Bogard, yielded to "an uncontrollable impulse" and raped Myrtle Wagner after he had looted...
With a dinosaur footprint among their booty, 22 tired geologists returned to Cambridge late Saturday night from an all-day field trip to the Connecticut Valley...
...mortuary chamber purchased by William Powell, the inconsolable actor who was to have become Miss Harlow's fourth husband. Thus was concluded another notable interment at the institution which Promoter Hubert Eaton has made as indispensable to Hollywood's great dead as a footprint in the cement at Sid Grauman's Chinese Theatre is to its living...
...beast varied in detail but agreed roughly that it was 40 to 50 ft. long with a large whiskery head and eight humps; that it could travel 40 m.p.h. up & down the lake, prudently keeping at least 100 yd. from shore. On the east shore, a large pudgy "footprint" was found. Scientists entering the discussion opined that it was: 1) an elephant seal that had slipped through the Caledonian Canal from the North Sea; 2) a giant squid; 3) a hippopotamus; 4) an acclimatized crocodile; 5) floating debris from a Wartime German blimp...
...Idaho's defense. Hired with the money, Harry Sessions, Rochester attorney, pleaded the dog's youthful playfulness. As crowds cheered and Idaho snored peacefully in packed Town Hall, the judge handed down his verdict: Defendant must be tied up for 27 months. While Idaho's footprint was sought by admirers far & wide, Father & Mother Breeze grumbled: "Pretty...