Word: awaye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...triangle crashed and last year Letitia Ernestine Brown sued Mr. Curtis for separation and $250 per week alimony, claiming she was his common-law wife. A Manhattan judge decided their relationship was purely meretricious and illicit, dismissed the suit. Mr. Curtis, declaring his "life was ruined," vanished "to get away from...
Chief Justice Charles W. Mason presided over the Johnston trial, administered the oath to the new Governor, then hurried away to prepare his own defense on impeachment charges against himself and two other justices of the State Supreme Court...
Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd sat sombrely in his snug Antarctic base last week, thinking of Laurence McKinley Gould, Harold J. June and Bernt Balchen, who the previous week had flown to the Rockefeller Mountains, 128 miles away. By radio they had reported their arrival there, then fallen silent for days...
...teams had started for the mountains, Commander Byrd with Malcolm Hanson and Dean Smith chanced a flight to what disaster they knew not. They found the first party miserable but safe in a wind-ripped, snow-clogged tent. A 150 m. p. h. gale had blown their heavy plane away together with their radio...
...indicator showed it roaring 85 m. p. h. The wind grew stronger. The plane bobbed up and down against its stay ropes. Stronger the wind. Gould, holding a rope, "was blown straight out like a flag." The men hugged the ice, dug knives into it to keep from blowing away. "The wind bellowed and shrieked at us. Pieces of snow, big lumps, began to hit us. They were pieces of packed snow from the mountain two miles away...