Word: buren
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York is the most populous State (12,588,000), most wealthy ($40,708,000,000), most costly to run ($310,777,000). It holds the economic heart of the nation. Its citizens pay one-third of the total Federal income tax. Three of its 44 Governors?Van Buren, Cleveland, Roosevelt?have proceeded to the nation's No. 1 job. Four others?Seymour, Tilden, Hughes, Smith?ran for the Presidency...
Excepting the DO-X, the Hutchinson party was the largest yet to attempt a transatlantic crossing in one plane. Besides the four Hutchinsons there were a navigator, radioman, mechanic, and an RKO-Van Buren cinematographer. On their take-off from Floyd Bennett Field. N. Y., the Hutchinsons?George, 30, Blanche, 28, Kathryn, 8, Janet Lee, 6?were uniformed in brown sport coats, buff polo shirts, suede riding breeches. So were the dolls, Kathryn's Patsy Joan and Janet's Patsy...
...years Artist Alice Stallknecht (Mrs. Carl Van Buren Wight) has summered in Chatham. Since her husband's retirement from a Greek professorship at Johns Hopkins she has lived there permanently. Once an art student in New York and Philadelphia, Artist Stallknecht did not take up painting seriously until last year. This year she decided to decorate Old Congregational Church. In five weeks she turned out a mural 9 ft. by 20 ft. in three panels. Her Christ is tall, slight, blue-eyed, dark-haired, aged about 30. The face is an idealized combination of many Cape Cod fisherfolk...
Birthdays. The famed morsel of live chicken heart, nurtured by Dr. Alexis Carrel in the laboratory of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, 20; Mrs. Jeanette Lauchheimer and Mrs. Henriette Dannenbaum, twins, 100; Sir Henry Fielding Dickens, sixth son of Charles Dickens, 83; John Van Buren Thayer, vice president of Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co., 80;* Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, 79; David Lloyd George, 69; Carl Laemmle, 65; Felix Moritz Warburg...
...Storr's Point was isolated, inaccessible except through one gate which was kept locked. When middle-aged Miss Fenwick arrived to visit her niece she and the taxi-driver would have been perturbed had they seen the notorious criminal clinging to the back tire. That same night Playwright Van Buren, big frog of the colony, was stabbed to death with an ice pick. In rapid succession came two other killings, several murderous attempts. By the time you have struggled after Inspector Andrews through tortuous experiments to his triumphant conclusion you will have snapped at so many red herrings...