Word: brownings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...went through the corn and looked out. There was a man with a gun. He had on a hat and brown pants. ... I had a bag with me but I dropped it when I heard the shots...
...Kolesar died instantly, his back riddled with a load of No. 4 shot. Joe Klementovich was taken to a hospital, apparently dying. He was ten years old. Helen Klementovich's wounds were less dangerous. Police soon seized Farmer Craig Hoffman, identified by Anna Kolesar as "the man in brown pants." He denied shooting the children. In his house was found a ten-gauge shot-gun.* Police, fearing a lynching, dispersed muttering crowds, locked up Farmer Craig, charged him with murder, assault with intent to kill, atrocious assault and battery...
...Famed in Vienna today is the luggage shop of Herr Golodarbeiter, whose daughter and cashier is demure, brown-haired Lisl Goldarbeiter. dubbed by Galveston, Tex., judges, "Miss Universe?the Most Beautiful Girl in the World (TIME, June...
Meantime, in the other bracket, came an upsetter in the person of brown, brawny Mrs. Molla Bjurstedt Mallory, eight times National Champion. Seeming to forget her years, but not her craft, Mrs. Mallory stepped briskly to the court, flashed her teeth, stamped her feet, theatrically eliminated England's No. 1 player, bouncing Betty Nuthall, 6-3, 6-3. Thus she flouted a Wills-Nuthall semifinal, long anticipated. Thus she herself gained the privilege of playing Champion Wills. That privilege, however, lasted only 20 minutes, with the grim Californian giving her not a game...
National Colored (at Bordentown, N. J.) ?men's singles, Edgar G. Brown of Chicago; doubles, Eyre Saitch of Harlem. N. Y. & Sylvester Smith of Baltimore: women's singles, Ora Washington of Chicago...