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Word: breen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Great Divide | 4/19/1943 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Navy School Class Holds Private Smoker | 11/20/1942 | See Source »

...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

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Hoopsters Oppose Northeastern Here Tonight | 12/17/1941 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Hollywood | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: January Crime | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

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