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Word: burgesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Albert Payson Terhune, Ernest Thompson Seton, Donald Culross Peattie and Thornton Burgess all put their heads together, they would hardly be able to devise an animal fiction as strange as the animal fact which baffled San Antonio, Texas last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Treasure Hunt | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

Divorced. Oliver Burgess ("Buzz") Meredith. 29, actor (Winterset, High Tor) ; by his second wife, Margaret Perry, 25, actress (Strictly Dishonorable); in Reno, Nev. Grounds: mental cruelty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 1, 1938 | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

...Burgess Meredith and Lillian Gish portray quite sympathetically the couple who do well in poverty without knowing it but ruin themselves when they join the moneyed interests. Russell Collins is excellent as the uncouth fellow who remains fanatically honest, no matter where he finds himself...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Playgoer | 5/31/1938 | See Source »

...alleged suicide of Fisher is the third to have occurred among Harvard students this year. The body of F. William Burgess, 1L, believed to have jumped to his death from the West Boston Bridge November 13, was found floating in the Charles River Basin February 6, and the body of John F. Higgins, a post graduate student in the Law School was found hanging in his apartment in he Ambassador Hotel, February...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fisher Shoots Self at Home in Year's Third Harvard Suicide | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

Certainly cries for help were heard coming from the proximity of the bridge; witnesses attest to that. And one man contends that he saw Burgess drowning in the water, and directed him to hang on a little longer. Significance is also attached to the fact that the body when found was minus the suit coat...

Author: By F. ROCKWELL Hollands, | Title: Police Drop Burgess Case---Mystery Shrouds Death as Theories Persist | 2/10/1938 | See Source »

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