Word: baileys
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Last week Leon Conwell announced he would revive this lecture which tells of a man who roamed the world looking for diamonds he dreamed of, died without knowing that they existed in his own garden. It contains quotations from the Bible, Grant, Garfield, Lee, Rockefeller, Tennyson and a Mr. Bailey. Solemnities abound like these: "He is an enemy to his country who sets Capital against Labor. . . . Even if a rich man's son retains his father's money he cannot know the best things in life. . . . We must know what the world needs first and then invest ourselves...
...Lady Mary Bailey, English flyer, at Tahoua, French West Africa. She had been trying to fly from England to Cape Town, was for several days thought killed...
Meanwhile Lady Bailey, seasoned pilot, wife of Sir Abe Bailey, diamond tycoon, was missing in the Sahara. She had been trying to break Amy Johnson Mollison's record of 4 days 7 hr. from London to Cape Town. French army planes found her the fifth day, in desolate country southeast of Gao. She was suffering from thirst, exhaustion, influenza...
...Dean Bailey of Butler University, perceiving the prevalence of divorce, concluded that some special degree of education was necessary for successful marriage. The course is thus postulated on the theory that H.M.S. "Matrimony" founders not in the hurricane, but goes down more often under the insidious thrusts of countless little waves; and that this would not happen if it were so caulked as to be indifferent to, or careless of, these everyday tifts. Dean Bailey intends to do the caulking...
Engaged. Diana Churchill, 23, eldest daughter of British Tory Winston Churchill; and John Milner Bailey, 32, eldest son of Transvaal Gold Man Sir Abe Bailey, stepson of British Aviatrix Hon. Dame Mary Bailey...