Word: agented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...investigate, a company representative found plump Bertha Mae bedded in a local hospital. Physicians decided she had given birth to a child but could discover no evidence of external injury. Carrying his inquiries further among insurance adjusters, the investigator learned so much about Mr. Womack, a onetime insurance agent, that last week he and an impressive array of his relatives stood trial on an impressive array of counts in the East St. Louis District Court of Federal Judge Fred L. Wham...
Although reluctant to give utterance about the affair, Calfee insinuated through a press agent that the project was one of purely academic interest. "The project is one of purely academic interest," he said "no sex." Miss Harrison held quite another opinion. "Thus academic stuff is twaddle," she asserted. "Where would we be without...
...research. Nominal head of the new organization is the President's onetime law partner, Basil O'Connor, who enthusiastically declared: "We could use the entire mint in this work and produce 10,000 Warm Springs." Actual head is Keith Morgan, good Roosevelt friend, glib insurance agent with a big-business clientele. Most of the trustees and directors of the new enterprise are businessmen. In the list are no doctors...
...SCOTLAND-R. H. Bruce Lock-hart-Putnam ($3). In this nostalgic, slow-paced account of his athletic boyhood, Author Lockhart (British Agent) gives first place to relatives and Rugger, with interspersed laments on the decline of bagpipes, kilts, Scotch whiskey, dialect and nationalism, winds up with a stirring defense of schoolmasters. Concluded with this volume, Author Lockhart's autobiographical series adds little to modern letters, but makes an interesting example of Scotch frugality in living one's life twice over...
...American literature and morals, and incidentally delving into her mother's racy past. The latter soon has company in her embarrassment, however, because the partner of her ecstatic adventure, who also wrote the poem describing it, is in the house on a reminiscent visit, now being an international literary agent...