Word: alex
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...afterward posed for her photograph as Queen, a shocking breach of Moslem custom, doubly shocking because Her Majesty not only was photographed but posed unveiled! The moment she was married she should have heavily veiled herself, and Court officials desperately maintained that she did, but Chicago Tribune's, Alex Small was among those who saw otherwise, cabled: "Farida wore no veil at all, revealing that she is of the pure Circassian type, more beautiful than has been represented in any of her pictures. Her short, slim, childish figure was clothed in a billowing white satin wedding gown." Worth...
...Alex Northrop is the sole Harvard runner in the 1000, and Al Hanlon will wear the Crimson in the 600 yard distance...
...defense Alex Kevorkian will continue to team up with Traf Hicks, while Emerson and Jameson furnish the reserve power. Vint Freedley, who played a stellar game against the Tigers, will start in the nets, although if all goes well Johnson may see some service...
...First Syndic (president) of the tiny 190-sq. mi. territory of Andorra, the world's oldest republic, which nestles atop the Pyrenees between Spain and France, gathered in solemn conclave last week to decide whether to admit to their country a tough-mugged gentleman who styled himself Alex Abraham Sikorski, alias "Kid Tiger," onetime trigger man for Gangster Al Capone...
Chicago police and Washington income tax sleuths said they have never heard of Alex ("Kid Tiger") Sikorski. Yugoslav police believe it was he who turned up in Belgrade last year boasting he was a faithful henchman of the late John Dillinger on his way to "get" Anna Sage, the Rumanian-born "Woman in Red" who put the finger on Dillinger. In Europe it can be as much fun to pretend to be an American gangster as to pretend in the U. S. to be a prince...