Word: arkfuls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bright 15-year-old boy. He loved to play soldier. Besides his valuable armor, Elmhurst was littered with Napoleonic shakos, sword belts, sashes, gold epaulets, bits of uniform. In last week's sale were a dozen battle scenes painted with iron hard detail and Noah's Ark color by 19th Century followers of Meissonier and Detaille: cavalry charges, artillery duels, the Battle of Wagram, Franco-Prussian war scenes, Renaissance gallants dueling, George III in full coronation robes, Louis XIV taking all his mistresses for a ride. There was also a barroom nude by Charles Landelle nearly six feet...
...Fordyce, Ark., because the high-school football team is called the "Fordyce Red Bugs," every player on the squad has dyed his hair bright...
...Leeds Trophy race for sportsmen pilots, Felix William ("Bill") Zelcer, proprietor of Manhattan's famed White Horse Tavern, whipped his Laird in to win. Of five entrants in the strictly amateur derby for the Lawrence trophy, only C. M. Taylor of Little Rock, Ark. crossed the finish line...
There is a considerable body of young people who are not only unable to go to college but are also jobless. To these went last week an invitation from Commonwealth College (Mena, Ark.), militant labor institution. Chief point: tuition at Commonwealth for nine months costs $120, less per month than the cost of living at home. There are no other expenses. Said Lucien Koch, Commonwealth's director: "Young people to whom the Depression is a reality, who have lost their jobs and are not sure where the next meal is coming from, are the ones most likely to succeed...
Married. Rufus T. Bush, 24, son of Irving T. Bush, head of Brooklyn's Bush Terminal Co.; and Jane Louise Reid, 24, of Kansas City, Mo.; in Kansas City. Week ago Son Bush was divorced from Joan Jeffrey Bush in Bentonville, Ark...