Word: bungalows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Margate, England earlier in the week a wartime flying ace for Kaiser Wilhelm, dapper Doktor Hermann Gortz who now calls himself a novelist, was arraigned on charges of prying into Britain's air defense secrets. With him in a cozy bungalow lived the pretty girl His Majesty's Military Intelligence Department thinks filched secrets from handsome young officers of His Majesty's Royal Air Force, demure Fräulein Marianne Emig...
...Manhattan theatrical producer and of Actress Grace George, half-brother of Actress Alice Brady, husband of Actress Katharine Alexander, onetime partner of Producer Dwight Deere Wiman, with whom he staged The Road to Rome, The Command To Love, The Little Show; mysteriously in a borrowed bungalow which burned to the ground; near Colts Neck, N. J. Burned away except for the torso and one leg, the body was found in the smoking ruins near a melted half-pint flask, an automatic pistol with five cartridges in the magazine exploded, apparently by heat. Miss George stopped the run of Kind Lady...
...young U. S. economists willing to work in Addis Ababa for a pittance more than they could make at home. From the list Mr. Colson was picked by the Emperor, hired at $9,000 per year, and went to live with his wife in a sizzling, tin-roofed bungalow. It was this pair, Fat Chaps & Lean Chaps, who persuaded and advised Emperor Power of Trinity last week to make a move which His Majesty sincerely hoped would bring Great Britain to Ethiopia's side this week in bluffing down Fascist Italy at Geneva...
...prefabricated house is by no means the cheapest on the market. The famed wood-frame Hodgson house, originated 43 years ago by Boston's E. F. Hodgson, can be bought for considerably less. Sears, Roebuck & Co. will put a bungalow together for $2,500. But the prefabricated house builders hope to meet this competition by making their product twice as good as the cheapest house. They offer at least three things which Hodgson and Sears, Roebuck do not: termite-proof steel frames, airconditioning, fireproof materials. The prefabricated house is also earthquake-proof, can be blown over only...
...give a Cape Horn damn" about quitting the sea, later confessed he hated to leave it. Of the future he said: "I shall do just what my wife wants me to, as you married men know. . . . I've told her to buy me a bit of a bungalow near a graveyard and I shall sit me on a tombstone and read epitaphs in search of a new philosophy. . . . When I'm not reading tombstones . . . I'll get me to the nearest pub and try to forget...