Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...William Scrimgeour, his wife and two sons, Maxwell and Bailey, charged fees ranging from 2½% to 10% for getting Navy contracts. They made $613,798 last year, $250,000 the first half of this year. Father Scrimgeour denied stoutly that he had any pull with the Navy. But he did know "plenty of people down there...
Left. By the late Sir Abe Bailey, South African sportsman and gold mine tycoon: an estate valued at more than $2,000,000. His will leaves a quarter of it in trust "for the advancement, strengthening and development of the South African people," a $40,000 yearly income for his widow, and $400 each to Winston Churchill, the Duchess of Newcastle, the Marquess of Londonderry, and Horse Trainer Reginald...
...home he finds a group of pre-Pearl Harbor isolationists. Despite a great deal of angry talk, the young bomb enthusiast manufactures no bombs, burns up nothing except his boss and the daughter of the chairwoman of the local America Forever Committee. His name is not Reality but Jimmie Bailey, and, unlike the Fifth Horseman, he never enlists with the other four...
...Tokio Kid was the brain changeling of two Douglas artists, Jack Campbell and Harry Bailey. At present, Campbell is the Kid's sole portrait painter. Campbell was a member of the 40th Engineering Camouflage Division during World War I, is an alumnus of the Disney studio. He is slim, swarthy, long-toothed, usually smiling, wears glasses when he works, bears a certain resemblance...
...though the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey show has traded atmosphere for oomph, its exhibits are much the same as ever. There are no longer any tumbling Japs; but 600-lb., 12-year-old Gargantua is still on display in the basement. The sad, crummy-looking clowns still provoke mirth. Massimilliano Truzzi still juggles flaming torches; the Wallendas ride a bicycle tandem on the high wire; the Flying Concellos do their breathless, double-and-triple-somersault flying leaps; the lions & tigers look simultaneously ferocious and bored; the trained seals render My Country, 'Tis of Thee; and the band still...