Word: backyard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...public. Though Adman Barton has not definitely accepted the National Republican Committee's invitation, he got in some practice last week at a Chicago meeting of the Illinois Manufacturers' Association. Suggesting that businessmen get busy in the politicians' own backyard, he took off his hat, as one master salesman to another, to Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...case which has kept California tongues wagging since Memorial Day 1933. That May morning a real estate agent and her client dropped in at the Lamson bungalow on the Stanford University campus in Palo Alto. They found Lamson stripped to the waist. He had been burning rubbish in the backyard. Telling his callers to wait until he got a shirt on, Lamson vanished into the house. A few minutes later he opened the front door, cried: "My God, my wife has been murdered." Rushing in, the agent and client found the nude, dead body of Allene Thorpe Lam son sprawled...
Seeking Divorce. Clarence Cleveland Dill, 51, onetime (1923-35) U. S. Senator from Washington; from "General'' Rosalie Gardner Jones Dill, onetime militant New York feminist; in Spokane, Wash. Clarence Dill charged that his wife buried dogs and garbage in the backyard, refused to serve enough food to his political guests, told his friends that he was "a political coward" for declining to run for re-election...
...best basketball players in the U. S., 100 come from Indiana. To that State, flat as a huge gymnasium floor, basketball has an overwhelming, universal appeal, like skiing in Norway, hockey in Canada. In the backyard of almost every Indiana house where children live is a basketball court of some sort, often with bottomless peach baskets instead of nets...
...once touching and hilarious. The picture sketches their early career through newsreel shots and ends in a grand climax especially made for the picture. This exhibits the Quintuplets singing, tipping over their chairs, groveling on the floor, beating trays with spoons and shouting until their nursery sounds like a backyard with a fox in it. By this time Dr. Luke has received both his hospital and the Order of the British Empire...