Word: borings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born: Winchester, Ind., Nov. 2, 1864. Career: Son of a country lawyer, he was educated at DePauw University where he played baseball, got his A.B. in 1886. Admitted to the Indiana bar next year, he began practice with his father. In 1892 he married Flora Miller who bore him three sons, one daughter. He removed to Rushville (pop. 5,709) in 1893 where he has made his home ever since. He joined the Elks, made lodge speeches and friends, drifted into politics. In 1894 he was first elected to the House of Representatives where with one interruption he served...
...magazine was the Canadian Journal of Commerce, a cheaply printed monthly with a small circulation. The October issue, which was the one that made Mr. Macaulay righting mad, bore this caption on its front page...
Fitz, playing in Gibb's place in the Harvard Freshman backfield, bore the brunt of the ball carrying in the third period until his fumble deep in the Worcester territory cost him his prestige...
...Davison Rockefeller jig together with a chorus of little oil cans. Tunes: "Wouldja for a Big Red Apple?", "You're Not Pretty But You're Mine," "Satan's Little Lamb." When Ladies Meet (by Rachel Croth- ers; John Golden, producer). Everything Mary Howard (Frieda Inescort) did bore the hallmark of success. Her novels sold, the ivy on her Manhattan terrace grew, her life and friends operated efficiently. Yet she was lonely. Her closest male companion, an easy-going Philip Barry character named Jimmy (Walter Abel), adored her in an embarrassed, tail-wagging sort of way. Mary wanted...
...more intense, individual battles between airmen and Russian troops became of prime importance. So vicious was the Squadron's strafing that the Soviet Commissars put a price of 12,500 gold rubles on the U. S. flyers' heads, later doubled it. Hawking over enemy territory, pilots would bore down out of the sun, both machine guns bucking. If the concentration was heavy, they would let fly the plane's two bombs...