Word: alan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. A. B. Elliott, British air plane mechanic; at Basra, Irak (near Bagdad). A wandering Arab shot him while on duty flying low over the desert in a plane piloted by Lieut. Alan Cobhain...
...Alan A. Ryan, who in February 1920 secured a corner on Stutz shares, only to have them left on his hands without a market when the stock was stricken from the New York Stock Exchange list...
That what we need is what we lack. L. Alan Weisman...
...Milwaukee, a niece of the General. Contending that Colgate & Co. by using her relative's whiskers as a "springboard from which to launch a jocose and humorous sales argument," had obscured the record he won on the battlefield, she took her case to Arnold Furst, Manhattan lawyer. Lawyer Alan Fox will represent Colgate & Co. The two counsels were 'classmates at Yale in 1903, partners in many a college prank...
...there is a chance for all who were too young, busy, distant or improvident to see one of this era's most satisfactory spine-chillers on the stage, to read it in a book. One suspects that one of Mrs. Rinehart's literarily inclined sons -Alan, the publicity man, or Stanley, a still-higher-up of their mother's publisher - is the unnamed "third person" who alleges he was a nervous derelict after transcribing from scenes to chapters the ghoulish excitement that takes place, in and about Manhattan, when the Mark of the Bat begins...