Word: accidentally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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For once the onetime War Lord appeared smiling, affable, passed around his famous fat cigars. The accident was regrettable, he said, but easily explained. He had been "handling" a new pistol?presumably much as a Tilden swishes a new racket?to get its hang and feel. He had not noticed...
In Manhattan last week Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. spun around in his chair and seized a telephone. In Los Angeles, Fred Stone soon heard his telephone bell ring. Mr. Ziegfeld wanted Dorothy, golden-haired dancing daughter of Mr. Stone, to proceed immediately to Manhattan to play the lead in Show Girl...
Above all other military duties private soldiers enjoy listening to lectures. Whether the subject is Elementary Gunnery or Advanced Hygiene does not matter. A soldier at a lecture is quietly sitting down. He is not drilling, digging or carrying anything. Last week soldiers of the First Jugoslavian Infantry stationed at...
David Burbank, 25, nephew of the late great Luther Burbank, was in an automobile accident near East Gloucester, Me., pronounced dead, taken to an undertaker. En route signs of life were noticed. He was rushed to hospital, given a chance for recovery.
"A terrible experience. Much worse than when I was going down to St. Moritz to see Mary Garden and had an automobile accident. . . . Much worse than when I was getting out of Russia during the Revolution. . . . Worse than anything.*