Word: allen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Angeles, a grocer on the city's outskirts whiled away time before his supper listening to his radio, heard a voice at Station KPO (San Francisco) saying: "Allen Straight is asked to communicate immediately with his father at Loveland, Colo. Straight is thought to be en route between Del Mar and San Diego." It was part of KPO's daily call for "missing people...
Thrifty, the grocer was still tending store when, two hours later, a motorist entered to make purchases. Hospitable, the grocer engaged his customer in conversation. Confiding, the customer let fall that his name was Straight. Quick-witted, the grocer asked if he was Allen Straight. Yes, he was. . . . Mrs. Straight was dying in Colorado...
...members of the Harvard team were Captain A. G. Carrillo '26, A. R. Allen '26, and Howard Finney...
...will makes the trip are Captain A. G. Carrillo '26, A. R. Allen '26, Howard Finney '26, follsmen; R. P. Outerbridge '28, and J. F. Davidson '27, duelling swords; Coach Danguy, and Assistant Manager E. A. Morison...
...take my choice at 10 o'clock this morning between two romanticists of almost equal appeal. Professor Murdock is talking in English 33 on Edgar Allen Poe in Harvard 2, while Wordsworth will be Professor Lowes' subject in subject in English 28 at the same time in Sever 11. Poe has had a strange fate since the war, his letters and his table talk and his random jottings have received immoderate attention. It will not be long before he will be recognized more widely as being one of our great romantics. And besides. Poe was once expelled from college. Professor...