Word: bents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tour was projected for them by Charles Hayden, popular and potent head of the great Manhattan banking house of Hayden, Stone & Co., director of 71 corporations (including Curtiss-Wright). Ambassador Morrow started the tour fund going with a substantial contribution while Mr. Hayden, smart bachelor with a strong social bent, mapped and arranged receptions, solicited more subscriptions...
...noon it struck. A howling grey wall of wind and water smashed full against the city. Trees bent over, slowly, grotesquely, then snapped from their roots, were flung aside like chaff. Above the roar of the wind came the rumble of falling masonry, and screams...
...blood is thicker than gratitude. In the night after Dr. Irigoyen's temporary retirement, General Uriburu secretly joined a group of wealthy and aristocratic brother officers, all bent on revolution, at the Campo de Mayo barracks. By dawn their troops were on the march. Ahead of the columns flew battle planes, zooming and thundering over Buenos Aires, raining down leaflets. One plane dived low over Argentina's Casa Rosada ("Pink House"), peppering the Executive Mansion with machine gun bullets. Frantic crowds snatched the bulletins with joy, read an exhortation to "rise" signed "Military Junta." They rose...
...honors went to a mother & son, Mrs. Anna L. Keenan and Walter Keenan of Philadelphia, who described it as "a sort of Rudy Vallee foxtrot. . . . And don't call it the 'Varsity Drag,' please. It's the University, and a very dignified dance." Principal features are an erect body bent slightly forward and the slow drag of the feet from back to front after each step. Collegiate jiggers will dance it with a slight bend of the knee. Conservatives will do it with more dignity, legs straight...
Died. Mrs. Flavia Camp Canfield, 86, widow of the late James Hulme Canfield (onetime president of Ohio State University), mother of Novelist Dorothy Canfield Fisher (The Bent Twig, The Brimming Cup, Her Son's Wife); at her country home near Arlington...