Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dark Stranger. In Brooklyn, a seeress accepted a $1 fee, cheerfully assured her customer that his troubles were over, realized too late that her own were just beginning when the customer showed his badge, hauled her in to pay a $100 fine for fortune telling...
Project. In Washington, the Interior Department considered a request from a Brooklyn matron: "Dear Sirs: Will you send me some information my class is studing about...
Sultry, sensuous Chloe Delaplain, 18, flew into a rage. "Obscene-obscene picador," she screamed that day in 1875, in a voice that shook the Delaplain brownstone mansion in Brooklyn, N. Y. Selfish sister Ellen, 22, paid no heed, hummed tralala, wrinkled her "grotesque and powerful" nose, turned to give a gracious welcome to Homer Henshaw, a Harvard man. There was nothing left for Chloe" to do but to walk in the family garden. Almost before she knew it, handsome Gerrit Van Fleet was "grinding his blonde mustache into her lips...
...Chen, Horace Mann School, New York; Giles Constable, Phillips Academy, Andover; Hampton Davis, Central High School, Sioux City, Iowa; Jack Durell '49, Bronx High School of Science, New York; Samuel I. Epstein, Boston Latin; Preston W. Gifford, Jr., Fairhaven High School, Fairhaven; Ralph Gross '49, James Madison High School, Brooklyn; Frederic D. Houghteling, Phillips Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire; Albert A. Kopf, George Washington High School, New York; Vasilios G. Letsou, Lowell High School; Norman G. Levinsky, Boston Latin; Robert F. Lundin, Medford High School' Frederick W. Marx, Jr. Phillips Academy, Exeter; Thomas F. O'Dea, Amesbury High School; Charles...
...almost unbelievable luck during the Casablanca naval battle. More 6-inch and 5-inch shells were thrown by the light cruiser Brooklyn alone than by the entire U.S. fleets against the Spanish at Manila Bay and Santiago. But at Casablanca U.S. ships suffered only five minor hits, while the French lost more than a dozen ships, sunk, missing or disabled. The Massachusetts almost took a spread of four torpedoes at once, but maneuvered between Nos. 3 & 4 of the spread, with No. 4 only 15 feet to starboard...