Word: breen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...First Relief took back 21 survivors, many of them children. On the way down the divide, they met the Second Relief. Outside one hut, the Second Relief found a dismembered body. There was an entry concerning it in the diary of one of the travelers, Patrick Breen: "Mrs. Murphy said here yesterday that [she] thought she would commence on Milt and eat him." She had. At the Donner family huts, Tamsen Donner had just sent a man to beg Elizabeth, Jacob Donner's wife, for a meal. The man was just returning with a leg of Elizabeth...
Emceed by S-O Richard Breen, the show included a skit by an unknown radio expert, who explained the mysteries of how to oscillate waves, with blackboard drawings to match. He was followed on the all-star bill by Bos'n Pen land giving a bewildered account of a baseball game in "the bloomin' yonkee stadium...
...good average on their foul shots so far this season. Hennessey's eight straight charity throws have been an important contribution to the team's excellent average of around 65%. HARVARD NORTHEASTERN Hennessey, l.f. r.f., Marchand Bixler, r.f. l.f., La Fleur Keene, c. c., Scott DeLeo, r.g. r.g., Breen Richards, l.g. l.g., Clark
Will Hays lay ill of overwork in a Chicago hospital, where it turned out he had been for more than seven weeks. Assistant Joe Breen went to his bedside, Columnist Louella Parsons rumored his retirement. ∙∙ Gloria Swanson finished a picture she hoped meant a comeback. ∙∙ Oldtime Comedian Raymond Hatton got a new part, had the same hope. ∙∙Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks No. 2 (Mary Pickford) and Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks No. 3 (Lady Sylvia Ashley) flew to New York together, along with Norma Shearer, whom Ronald Balcom has been escorting when he wasn't with...
...CASE OF THE SOLID KEY-Anthony Boucher-Simon & Schuster ($2). Evil deeds, some homicidal, in a Little Theatre group in Hollywood. Fergus O'Breen is a fairly amusing private detective, well up on his sodium fluoride. Quick and slick...