Word: norfolk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rest of town were closed so 40,000 homeless could be bedded, fed and inoculated against typhoid. Not all The Bottoms' occupants got away safely. A house with five screaming people in it went sailing down the Ohio as onlookers stood helpless on the bank. The Norfolk & Western abandoned service when floods east of the city washed out the right of way at Clear Creek, near the Little Miami River. Other lines were soon out of commission because the fine new Union Station is in old Mill Creek Valley and tracks were deeply submerged. An even greater danger threatened...
...Century," it presented: a 1902 single-cylinder Oldsmobile, driven by a couple in dusters, goggles, veils, and beside it the elegant open caleche of Mr. Harris Fahnestock containing a frock-coated dandy and his feather-boaed wife. A tandem bicycle with a boomer girl in front, a Norfolk-jacketed scorcher behind. An exhibition of the iron-clad blue serge bathing suits suitable for Far Rockaway in the days of Theodore Roosevelt. A genuine Morris chair, a cylinder phonograph, a pianola. Photographs of Olga Nethersole as Sappho, Ethel Barrymore in Captain Jinks, Maude Adams as L'Aiglon. First editions...
...CHILDS Yeoman, Third Class, U. S. N. U. S. Naval Training Station. Norfolk...
...Earl of Shrewsbury and not the Duke of Norfolk is Premier Earl of England. The Duke of Norfolk is Hereditary Earl Marshal from which TIME's mistake doubtless arose...
Would Anglophile DuBois dispute Burkes or Debrett's Peerages? Both list Bernard Marmaduke Fitzalan-Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk, as "Earl Marshal and Hereditary Marshal of England, Premier Duke and Premier Earl...