Word: allen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about to put out on a six-day "shakedown cruise." Across the dock from the Philadelphia lay the ancient battle sloop. Hartford, which Rear Admiral Farragut comm.anded in the Civil War battle of Mobile Bay and the capture of New Orleans. Cried the President to Rear Admiral William Henry Allen, standing with his staff on the pier...
Herbert Hoover writes his own speeches, always has. Reason their tone has changed for the better: Smart Hoover friends, like sharp-eyed Sacramento Publicist Ben Allen, argued him into using his private manner in public...
...morning of Oct. 15, 1899 (goes her story), that drunken, 18-year-old Allen Britt (or Albert), a sturdy downriver buck, strode into Housemaid Frankie's St. Louis bedroom with another woman. When Frankie ordered him to leave, he drew a knife. As Frankie edged toward her pistol she warned him: "You're trying to get me hurt, and I don't want me to hurt you. The best place for you to go is your mother." When Britt failed to take the hint, she shot him. Groaning on the floor, he gasped: "Oh, you have...
...guarantee of good humored independence for the next year, the Society's directors elected pink-cheeked William Allen White, good-humored, independent editor of the Emporia Gazette, as their president...
Action at Aquila - Hervey Allen - Farrar & Rinehart...