Word: borings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Flemington, N. J., Jan. 2--Bruno Richard Hauptmann came face to face with Charles A. Lindbergh in the stuffy, postage stamp courthouse where he went on trial for the murder of a baby that also bore the name of Charles A. Lindbergh...
...definitely decided to reverse this trend in 1935. Federal Administrator Harry Hopkins is demanding that the states assume a larger share of the relief burden. The states, however, will not resume a burden they gave up; they will be asked to assume a much larger burden than they ever bore...
...lovers that they were mismated. Seduced by a pretty Spanish girl, John decided to stay and listen to the nightingales. The strike over, the arresting semicolon lifted, the travellers went on, to finish their sentences in a new direction. Sadder and supposedly wiser, Julian and the jilted bride bore each other company to Corunna, brave but bereft. The Author looks like a British Richard Halliburton. An Oxonian, he once distinguished himself at rowing by upsetting the entire eight because he had stopped to look at a kingfisher. Now 26 and an advertising copywriter, he travels when he can, goes alone...
...Climbing into a private car, he rolled for days through the vast desolation of the Yilgarn Goldfields, the Hampton Tableland and the red-soiled Nullarbor Plain to Adelaide (1.600 miles). There the Sussex picked him up. carried him 500 more miles to Melbourne. Six bay horses with postilion riders bore H. R. H. in the Victorian State carriage to Parliament House where he read a message from his father: "A country so richly endowed by Nature and with such great traditions can look to the future with confidence. The Queen joins in my prayer that Vic- toria will continue...
...Charles Vance Millar, Toronto attorney, died. He had accumulated a fortune at the bar, at racetracks and in breweries. A bachelor, he bequeathed $500,000 of his estate to the Toronto woman who bore the most children within the ten-year period following his death. Last week in Toronto each of the two leading contenders for the prize money bore a child. Mrs. Frances Lillian Kenny, 31, gave birth to a girl, her eleventh child since the race began. Mrs. Grace Bagnato, 41, gave birth to a boy, her ninth child in the race...