Word: booth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...head steady on "a long trip." Next day the hotel porter thought he heard a groan through the locked door of the old gentleman's chamber. The door was burst in time for a doctor and two others to hear a stertorous voice say: "I am--am--John Wilkes-- Booth. I killed--killed--Abraham --Lincoln--the--best--best...
...Harper, a minister's wife, was brought. "Poor Mr. George," she said. Yes, he had told her he was Booth, one night when he was at death's door in El Reno, Okla. He had wished lilacs near his coffin. He had mentioned a Texan named Bates. Yes, the addressee of the letter they had found in George's pockets was that Texan, Finis L. Bates...
...Booth '27, Freshman ace of two years ago, and F. B. Cutts '28, relief twirler last year, are two other hurlers of experience with right hand deliveries who are expected to report today. The only port side pitcher of known worth expected out is Solomon Andrews '27, who showed flashes of brilliance for the 1925 nine...
...began to recite a chant, while his listeners turned around and smiled at one another, signaled and whispered, some even rising from their chairs to shout aloud. They were, in person or by proxy, the 700 millionaires who had been invited to come to this drawing room (the auction booth of the Anderson Galleries, Manhattan) to bid for the first items of the collection left by the late Viscount Leverhulme, the manufacturer of Lifebuoy Soap...
...sturdy, determined car of incredible age, seemingly, a car strangely difficult to classify as to make. For the wheels are obviously old Cadillac ones, about 1911 model; the radiator, an even more ancient Speedwell part. Something about the headlights suggests Stutz 1912. The windshield is off a Scripps-Booth. Then there is a Packard horn, with Buick and Cole hubcaps, a Grant starter, a Maxwell steering column with Cadillac steering wheel. Pryers into the car's internals might recognize Cadillac transmission and differential, Cadillac upholstery, a Marvel carburetor from some ancient Buick, an oiling system off a 1910 Fiat, Bosch...