Word: ace
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pressed the rivet on his neck. "Where's Papa?" she asked sternly. Antonio caressed his father's photograph for a moment. "In front of a table covered with green cloth," he answered. "He's holding a jack of hearts, a seven of clubs and an ace of spades...
Last week, after tagging along with ace crime reporter Underwood for six weeks, Phoebe Hearst, granddaughter of W.R. and daughter of eldest son George, got to cover an assignment all by herself. It was only a Cancer Prevention Society meeting, and the story was killed after the early editions, but she felt encouraged. The family had thought she ought to start out in the society department, but she "couldn't see much fun in going to teas all the time...
Married. Morton Cecil ("Mort") Cooper, 33, burly Boston Braves ace pitcher (who on his wedding night was knocked out of the box by unfeeling St. Louis Cardinals); and Viola ("Dee") Smallwood, 25; he for the third time, she for the first; in Boston...
...Ace polo vaulter Pete Harwood has yet to be beaten this year, taking first in all of the five meets in which he has participated. Last week he cleared 12 feet, 6 inches and his best mark so far this year is 12 feet 8 inches which he made in the dual meet against Yale...
Died. Charles William Anderson Scott, 43, British war (I) ace who thrice broke the England-Australia flight record (1931-32-34); winner of the Harmon Trophy as the best aviator of 1934, winner of the 1936 Portsmouth-Johannesburg air race; by his own hand (gunshot); in Germany...