Word: bolted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many a strange and wonderful thing happens in California. When the Sacramento River near Rio Vista?40 mi. northeast of Oakland?receded fortnight ago, the headless body of a young Hindu was found sitting bolt upright, chained to a tractor wheel. He was identified as Sant Ram Pande, 32, engineering student at the University of California. The method of his identification was remarkable. Only three weeks prior he had insisted that his fingerprints be recorded by the State Bureau of Criminal Identification. He had then set out to find the slayers of 13 Hindus who have been murdered...
...Lightning Bolt, dark bay gelding owned by Mrs. John Hay (Mary Elizabeth Altemus) Whitney: with Vice President Curtis watching, the $14,300 Florida derby, climax of the Miami Jockey Club's 45-day meeting at Hialeah Park...
Embargo, When Oil was not placed in the new Tariff Act last Spring, observers said that independent oilmen had shot their bolt. But the independents were not defeated so easily. Every time they have gathered, their cry of "Stop those imports!" has been more and more determined...
...which the artist finds himself entangled by Miss Boland and her younger sister and her virginal daughter. After the younger sister and the artist have gone into the garden together in Act III and the daughter is safely in the arms of her fiance, Playwright Paul Osborn shoots his bolt: Miss Boland is informed by her husband that her oldtime seducer was not Painter Max Lawrence but Pianist Lawrence Mack. The play is sustaining, sophisticated, recommendable...
Last week Gifford Pinchot, Pennsylvania's Republican nominee for governor, lost the vote of William Winston ("Bill") Roper, famed Princeton football coach. Mr. Roper who, away from Princeton, is a Philadelphia councilman from the Germantown district, announced that he would bolt his party to support John M. Hemphill, Democratic nominee, because he was a thoroughgoing Wet. Bolter Roper managed the 1922 primary campaign which won Mr. Pinchot his first term as governor...