Word: brooked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time Killer Burke had not been seen (TIME, Dec. 30, 1929). Chicago sent a earful of detectives to apprehend him for the Moran massacre, because guns found in Burke's elaborate arsenal at St. Joseph, Mich, were identified as those used in the St. Valentine's day killings. Alias Brook, alias Burchell, alias Camp, Kemp, Kemper, he is wanted in New York for the slaying of Gang King Frankie Uale in 1928, in Detroit for murdering three "Red" McLaughlin hoodlums in 1927, in Columbus City, Ind. for killing a woman. Since his graduation from the Egan Rats of St. Louis...
...which had been misty, brightened before the trippers opened their sandwich baskets. On a barge moored in the Leeds & Liverpool Canal near Valentine's Brook, the Duke of Westminster and his friends quaffed scotch & soda. They were watched, from the Royal stand built several years ago for the Prince of Wales, by a wide-eyed group of Swedish excursionists. The grandstand and enclosure were nearly filled toward noon, when an agitated hare came humping down the home stretch, crossed the finish line and dodged into the paddock...
...they stood for a few seconds jostling at the line, then broke in the confusion of a false start. A moment later the field broke again, this time gathering speed and narrowing together as they went past Sefton Yard. Every horse went over the first fence. At Becher's Brook, Swift Roland fell and was killed when the horse behind him landed on his head. The first time past the stands, Easter Hero was ahead, with Gregalach second and Grakle, Shaun Goilin (last year's winner), Solanum, and a half-dozen others bunched close behind...
...tree by a Brook-let a little tom-tit Did bellow, and bellow, and bellow...
...alive, Frissell's father, Dr. Lewis Fox Frissell, last week persuaded famed Pilot Bernt Balchen to fly in search of them, in com-pany with his friend F. Merion Cooper and Pilot Randy Enslow. Through weather nearly impassable, Pilot Balchen pushed a Sikorsky amphibion as far as Corner Brook, N. F., about 500 mi. short of the goal. There he had to wait for a special train to arrive with more fuel. There he was passed by crack Pilot Robert H. Fogg, flying an open biplane with a Paramount cameraman. Pilot Fogg (who, like Balchen...