Word: abrahams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first U. S. Gould was Nathan Gold of England. A later Gould was Colonel Abraham, killed in a battle during the Revolution at Ridgefield, Conn. Jay Gould built a railroad empire and fought his battles in Wall Street. In many ways Helen took after her father. He left her $10,000,000 and made her (with three of his sons) a trustee of his $84,000,000 estate. She ran up her $10,000,000 to an estimated $30,000,000. She invested in traction properties and made an annual tour of 7,000 miles to inspect them. A strange...
They were fighters in a war in which the U. S. is neutral, veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, organized in January 1937 to fight for Loyalist Spain. The brigade mustered altogether 4,000 U. S. citizens. Last September the Spanish Leftist Government disbanded it. Those who filed last week from the third-class gangplank of the Cunarder Ausonia to a Manhattan dock had left behind some 2,000 killed and missing, 250 captured at Belchite, Brunete, many another battleground. (Others are still in Spain or convalescing in France, and 870 veterans had already returned...
...ABRAHAM WILSON...
Illegal in every State except Florida, the ancient sport of fighting gamecocks-a sport that fascinated George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and other famed Americans-still persists throughout the U. S., followed by hundreds of thousands of devotees. Last year more than 1,000 "mains"* were held in the 48 States, nearly $5,000,000 changed hands at the pitside (in bets and admission fees), and some 20,000 respectable U. S. citizens (from ministers to politicians) subscribed to the four national magazines published for the dissemination of cocking news...
...called on Dr. Abraham Brill, just then bringing out a translation of Freud. Dr. Brill asked if she had been psychoanalyzed. "What is psychoanalysis?" asked Mrs. Sanger. He explained, and then declared that after six weeks of his treatment she would not want to go on with the pamphlet. "Then I won't be analyzed," said Mrs. Sanger...