Word: torch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ship neared Europe a wireless message came telling him to proceed to Bremen. There an engineer from the Artiglio II gave him minute descriptions of two safes to be opened by divers 400 ft. below the surface. A third had been opened with an acetylene torch, damaging the contents. Courtney gave the engineer a "template" (outline pattern) of what the lock probably was like, where it should be drilled. His templates opened one safe, failed on the other until he had flown to Calais and drawn another. His employers told him to come back in August when there would...
Died. Zachary Smith Reynolds, 20, youngest son and an heir of the late Richard Joshua Reynolds (tobacco), husband of Torch Singer Libby Holman (Little Shows, Three's A Crowd); of "a gunshot wound inflicted by a person or persons unknown;" in Winston-Salem...
Marriage Revealed. Elsbeth ("Libby") Holman, 26, "torch-song" singer (Little Shows, Three's a Crowd); and Smith Reynolds, 20, tobacco scion of Winston-Salem, N. C. His first marriage was in 1929 to Anne L. Cannon of Concord, N. C. at 2 a. m. in York, S. C. with the bride's father (towel tycoon) and a policeman attending. When he becomes 28, Bridegroom Reynolds will receive the $20,000,000 estate of his father, the late Richard Joshua Reynolds...
...turns to a nearer wonderland, to a walled garden where the lilacs, now past their fullest bloom, but lovely still, run in purple and mauve along the quiet walks. A rampart of hills slope toward the sunset, and their sides are covered with the flower called the torch azalea, whose scentless beauty can teach the Vagabond more than all the sages can. Further on there is a valley where the sentinel pines stand black against a setting of green leaved oaks and hemlocks. There is also a brook, and horsemen clatter over the wooden bridge that bestrides it. A group...
Among the instruments, nuts and nudes on view last week were portraits of Sculptor Constantin Brancusi. Painters Andre Derain, Joseph Stella. Pablo Picasso, Novelist Sinclair Lewis, Negrophile Nancy Cunard, Torch-Singer Yvonne George, Cinemactress Lois Moran (when she was a child ballerina in the Paris opera). Also exhibited were views of assorted sections of his favorite model, Miss Lee Miller, known as "Lee-Girl" to her intimates, widely celebrated as the possessor of the most beautiful navel in Paris. She too is a photographer, has taken many pictures...