Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Feature of the third corrida of the season at the Comayaguela Fair, 50 mi. from Tegucigalpa was the appearance of one Ramiro Dominguez, second-rate Mexican matador. Major Geyer attended in a ringside seat. Attempting to execute a difficult passade, Matador Dominguez became entangled in his cape, slipped, fell prone before the charging animal. Without an instant's hesitation Major Geyer drew his service pistol, dropped the bull with a single bullet between the eyes. The air was rent with cheers for quickwitted Tauricide Geyer, mingled with boos for slovenly Tauromach Dominguez...
...Third largest party in Germany, the Centrist, is Catholic...
...songs. After the revolution Poliakova went to sing in a Paris cafe. This year she is in the U. S. to submit her informal, indefinable talent to the test of formal concerts. Manhattan liked her so much that last week she gave a second pro gram there, announced a third. Two of her best songs: "Odor of Lilacs," "What a Chorus Sang...
Last week a less glowing chapter in the Lea legend was in the making. Minnesota & Ontario Paper Co. asked receiver-ships for the Tennessee Publishing Co. (Tennesseans) and Southern Publishers, Inc. (Journal, Appeals). A third action by the receiver for Liberty Bank & Trust Co. demanded return of $166,000 obtained by Colonel Lea, his son Vice President Luke Jr. and others "by fraud and connivance." Reason given for the receivership suits: Partners Lea & Caldwell were guilty of "conversion, perversion, waste and misuse" of newspaper funds, and mismanagement of the papers...
...strapping young Chicago reporter stepped into a cinema theatre. It was perhaps the third time in his life he had "gone to the movies." What he saw-D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation-made his eyes pop, his heart thump. An industry doing things like that, he decided, was the place for him. So Reporter Martin Quigley quit his job with the Chicago evening Post and two months later began publishing the Exhibitors Herald. After absorbing two competitors, Motography, Motion Picture World, the magazine became the potent Exhibitors Herald-World and Publisher Quigley was a millionaire...