Word: armonk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Queena Mario for speeding, driving over a white line, passing another auto on a curve. Instead of giving her a ticket, Patrolman Ormond exacted from Soprano Mario a promise. Three days later Patrolman Ormond called for Soprano Mario & accompanist in a limousine borrowed from an undertaker, drove her to Armonk under strong police escort, rapturously listened to Soprano Mario work off her fine in Strauss songs at a Policemen's Benefit...
Marriage Revealed. George Preston Marshall, owner of Washington's Palace Laundries ("Long Live Linen"), the Boston Redskins (professional football team), onetime publisher of William Randolph Hearst's Washington Times; and Corinne Griffith, cinemactress; in Armonk, N. Y., last month...
Married. Jayne Dunham Shadduck, 19, cinemactress, divorced wife of Playwright Jack Kirkland (Tobacco Road); and Henry J. Topping Jr., 21, Manhattan socialite, heir to a $7,000,000 tin-plate fortune; in Armonk, N. Y., with Proprietor John K. ("Mooey-Mooey") Kriendler, of "Jack & Charlie's," Manhattan ex-speakeasy, as best man (TIME...
...went to the Lovat Band whose bald-headed leader, Augus Fraser, has entered 30 bagpiping contests during the last nine years, won 25 of them. Honors in caber-tossing (throwing forward in a half circle a log about the size of a small telegraph pole) went to an Armonk, N. Y. clansman named George Ross, after the caber had been sawed down several times so contestants could balance it. Further prizes were awarded to the best-dressed piper; the best-dressed lady in Highland costume; the best Highland flingers; winners at soccer, high-jumping, sack-racing and novice piping...
...Armonk, N. Y.. William Briggs, farmer, refused to get out of bed for police officers who had come to arrest him, was wrapped in a blanket, dumped in front of a Justice of the Peace, sentenced to four months, 25 days, for beating his wife over the head with a live chicken...