Word: angells
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hollywood for a wrestling match, Maurice ("The Angel") Tillet, fearsome-faced French wrestler, let himself be photographed strolling down Vine Street with Starlet Suzanne Ridgway...
...this fiscal backing and filling Davis was busy practicing his theosophic belief that because Divine Providence had led him to money it was his holy duty to spend it. In 1926 he backed a Broadway play, The Ladder, for an old playwright schoolmate. Believing in its theme of reincarnation. Angel Davis stubbornly kept the play (a flop) going for two years, eventually admitted the public free. The whim cost him a cool $1,300,000 before he had had enough. Going back to Texas to drill for more oil, he watched the last of his capital disappear into...
...sale. Events in Europe had played hob with securities sales, only 50.460 shares ($2,523,200 worth) had been subscribed. Last week frustrated A. P. announced that Transamerica Corp. (Bank of America's biggest stockholder) had bought the unsubscribed stock - but not with its own money. Angel of the deal was RFC, rebuffed but ever-ready. It advanced Transamerica $27,533,800 at 3½ % for ten years...
...half an airplane; the other half, says the speed-loving Futurist, is going so fast it cannot be seen. Aero-music is usually recorded motor roars with interspersed backfires. It was to aeropoetry that Futurist Marinetti turned last week in Venice: My song of joy to Benito Mussolini, Guardian angel who has electrified Futurist poets of Italy...
...wife and children while I'm eating off of Uncle Bud. . . . Frankly, I've been sold out -so now I'm selling out. . . ." Beneath a list of salable articles Prisoner Ballew penned his signature and a postscript:" 'If I had the wings of an Angel - Over these prison walls I would fly!" Three weeks ago many a Hall County cotton farmer to whom the merchant had extended liberal credit in years of drought, poor cotton prices, piled into his store in response to his ad. First day of the sale they cleaned his shelves of about...