Word: adame
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Rita Mitchell, 22, daughter of Manhattan Stockbroker Charles Edwin Mitchell (Blyth & Co. Inc.), onetime (1929-33) board chairman of National City Bank; and President George Adam Rentschler Jr., 44, of General Machinery Corp. (Hamilton, Ohio), brother of National City's President Gordon Sohn Rentschler and of Board Chairman Frederick Brant Rentschler of United Aircraft & Transport Corp.; in Manhattan...
...contest. Having drawn one of the middle lands, Minnesota's Ted Balko, 1934 champion, was handicapped by rows so spotty that once he found only three ears in 15 feet, of which one was so small that it flew through a crack in his bang-board. Adam Byczynski, Illinois champion and a hot favorite, husked fast but carelessly. His creditable total of 1,630 lb. was cut down to 1,466 by penalties. Well short of the Byczynski gross but a shade ahead of his net was the score of a long-faced, 38-year-old Iowan who, dressed...
...Adam's guilt our souls hath split, his fault is charg'd upon...
...seen and heard in Minneapolis were the most famed virtuosos of fretted instrumentalism, some of them playing on instruments worth thousands of dollars. Tenor Banjoist Albert Bellson played, for the first time anywhere, Bach's famed Chaconne, which is ordinarily a sombre, magnificent violin showpiece. Rev. Adam F. Hunkler, O.S.B., self-taught Catholic priest, played the five-string finger banjo on the same program with that maestro known to all Hawaiian guitarists, Sophocles Papas. Finally there was "the world's greatest mandolinist," Giuseppe Pettine of Providence, R. I., of whom the official Guild Reporter said in advance...
...paused on the long trail of progress," women had been "right there with their first-aid kits. The state at which we have arrived," she cried, "did not spring up in a night. It dates back to the Secret Order of the Illuminati, which was organized in 1776 by Adam Weishaupt of Bavaria, and which caused the fomenting of revolutions in Europe." From Adam Weishaupt it was only a step to Karl Marx, and from Karl Marx Mrs. Brosseau proceeded to the New Deal. Imploring her audience to "work together to keep the Constitution on the upper level...