Word: aug
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...once? Didn't he sail a rowboat around the world or something? But the man I cannot place, though I suppose I should, is Skipper Harry Pigeon of Los Angeles. What did he do? Why should he be given an Olympic diploma along with Lindbergh and Gerbault (TIME, Aug. 6)? I have no doubt whatever that he deserved it, but being something of a hero-worshipper I would like a description of just what "Potent Pigeon" accomplished that I have overlooked in the glorious annals of American sportsmanship...
...President Coolidge picked up one of his new gift shotguns, strode to his new gun butts (TIME, Aug. 6), broke seven of the first nine clay pigeons that were whirred in front...
...Pattangall's wife, a onetime Democratic National Committeewoman, "bolted" last fortnight (TIME, Aug...
...will be 24 on Aug. 10. No girl from the farm, no onetime Childs' waitress, she entered the movies as a debutante from Montreal, Canada, where her family lost money after the World War. The pictures that made her were The Flapper, Broadway After Dark, Pleasure Mad. Later, she did The Demi-Bride, The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg. She is the women's tennis champion of Hollywood, swims and dives well, drives a Chrysler, likes apple pie and rice pudding, runs an ostrich plume shop in Montreal. Her husband is Irving Thai-berg, production manager...
...testimony was helpful in sending Anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti to the electric chair (TIME, Aug. 29, 1927). He identified the bullet that killed the South Braintree, Mass., paymaster as coming from a revolver later found on Sacco...