Word: accidentally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Sumner M. Curtis, assistant to John T. Adams, Chairman of the Republican National Committee, in an automobile accident near Denver.
The present opus concerns their progeny-and the virtues of the fathers are visited upon their sons. Athletes who never fail to win the game in the ninth inning, jolly-good-fellows, fond of an honest roughhouse, chivalrous to the weaker sex, lovers of God's outdoors, their simple...
Almost martyrs to science, Grover C. Loening, President of the Loening Aeronautical Engineering Corporation, his brother Albert T. Loening and two pilots narrowly escaped drowning in the East River while testing out a new set of controls on one of their flying boats, the Breezewing. The experimental controls jammed and...
Governor Reily got into trouble because he chose his Cabinet from Republicans and Socialists, refusing to recognize those who demanded independence. The Unionists objected and delegations flowed into Washington protesting that the dominant party should control the entire Cabinet. When the trouble was at its height, Governor Reily came home...
The Story. The tired subeditor of the London Liberal, "that well known organ of the more depressing aspects of advanced thought," sneaks away for a lonely vacation from journalism and a noisy family. He and his flivver, by an accident only Einstein could fitly explain, crash right through the fourth...