Word: booths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Nathan Simms, 80 plus, Coatesville. Pa. negro believed to have unwittingly helped Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth to escape; in Coatesville. Simms said he held a fresh horse for Booth at the Washington boardinghouse of Mary Surratt, a Booth accomplice...
...daughter of Conductor Arturo Toscanini; and Pianist Vladimir Horowitz. 29; in Milan. Divorce Revealed. Lily Pons, 29, French operasinger; from August Mesritz, fiftyish, Dutch lawyer; in Paris. Retiring. Dr. William Holland Wilmer, 70, famed eye surgeon whose patients included Siam's King Prajadhipok, Charles Lindbergh, J. P. Morgan, Booth Tarkington, the late Viscount Grey of Fallodon, Sir Auckland Geddes, Flyer Jimmy Doolittle; as director of Johns Hopkins Hospital's Wilmer Institute of Ophthalmology; next July 1. Reason: retirement...
Author Rouverol (Skidding) has given the youngsters a funny, often callous play about two-dimensional adolescence, in the guaranteed tradition of Booth Tarkington. Present are the malapropisms ("hyperficial"), the big words for little feelings, the emotional roller-coasting from top to bottom to top again in a minute flat, adult poses and childish behavior...
...family waited while police hunted. One night last week the kidnappers again telephoned the Hart home. Police intercepted the call, traced it to a garage near San Jose City Hall. At the garage they found a husky man in a faded blue sweater still talking in the telephone booth. They dragged him out. He said his name was Thurmond. At a nearby hotel they caught his accomplice, one John Holmes, unemployed oil worker...
...writers have usually been certain before the game that their guess would come true. More frequently than not, they were wrong, witness the clash two years ago, when an undefeated Harvard eleven led by Barry Wood went down to an unpredicted defeat at the hands, or feet of Albie Booth, et al. The Crimson was highly favored that day and L'il Albie hadn't been doing so well that season. Wood still had his passing arm and there was Hageman to receive the heaves. But Albie and his little shoe outwitted them all, and sent the highly-touted home...