Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Duchess Dumpy San José is a sturdy black mongrel (Doberman pinscher & Irish setter) bitch belonging to Horticulturist Harvey C. Stiles. About a month ago, Mrs. Stiles held a dollar bill out to Dumpy and said, "Doesn't that smell nice?" Few days later, Dumpy turned up carrying in her mouth a dollar bill, which she pressed on her mistress. Next day she brought home another dollar. Each day for the following fortnight Dumpy brought home a dollar a day, never more, never less. Some of the bills were old-issue, large-sized dollars, most were current certificates. Only...
...three lengths in front, railbirds fancied they might be wrong. At the end of the second heat they saluted a great horse. McLin had won in straight heats (2:02 ¼, 2:02¾). To Owner Sheppard went $19,944, just $56 less than the amount he had paid Bill Cane the week before...
...others, and its precise effects are not perfectly known. Only unpleasant reactions were flushing, itching and sensations of intense heat in various parts of the skin. There are many relapses, mostly because the patients, when convalescent, have to return home, where once again they tuck in to the old bill-of-fare: salt pork, corn meal, molasses...
While Secretary of the Interior Harold LeClair Ickes and his bride were having fun in Alaska, 2 of his kin were having fun at the 11th annual reunion of the Clan Ickes at Ickesberg, Pa. Sister Julia came on from Altoona. Distant Cousin Bill, a $1,300 clerk in Cousin Harold's PWA, and Third Cousin Patrick, a $1,620 clerk in his National Park Service, came on from Washington. Present also was Henry Adams Ickes of the U. S. Housing Authority, who claims no kinship to Harold at all. Doings: prayers, speeches, house-to-house gossiping, the unveiling...
Tall, dark Clemence Dane (real name: Winifred Ashton) has not only written best-selling novels (Broome Stages, The Babyons), successful plays (Bill of Divorcement, Will Shakespeare), detective stories and movie scenarios, but at the same time she has pleased the critics. Her critical reputation is largely due to the actress-like ease (she is an exactress) with which she imitates other writers...