Word: camped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week a native-born U. S. seaman had served more than a year in German concentration camps and prisons without any trial whatever. Seaman Lawrence B. Simpson, 34, was last year dragged off the U. S. liner Manhattan in Hamburg, charged with possessing 500,000 Communist pamphlets. Last July New York City Communists rioted onto the German liner Bremen in protest against Simpson's jailing, while his father mournfully asserted that Son Lawrence was no Communist. Last fortnight the Ministry of Justice transferred Seaman Simpson from camp to Berlin's famed Moabit Prison, changed the charge against...
...final word of my loyalty. Alas, as I hold my pen, how fast the tears stream down my cheeks. I respectfully entreat you to carefully examine my words and forgive my impoliteness." What had brought Chen's officers to this impoliteness was the arrival in Chen's camp of some 200 Japanese military advisers and airplane pilots...
Most famed of Yale footballers, Edward Harris ("Ted") Coy was All-America fullback in 1908 and 1909, a member of Walter Camp's All-Time-All- America team. After graduation, he entered brokerage and insurance. His first wife was Sophie Meldrim, Savannah, Ga. socialite who divorced him in 1925. His second was Actress Jeanne Eagels, who divorced him in 1928. His third was one Lottie Bruhn of El Paso, Tex., who dropped from sight after his death last September. Last week, as the pawnbroker wrote to Skull & Bones in New Haven which immediately bought Coy's relics, newshawks...
...high enough to justify him in displaying the utter lack of ability which expensive minor-league stars conventionally show in their major-league debuts. Any chance Di Maggio might have had to shine this season seemed even more thoroughly ruined by the attention he received in training camp, where sportswriters hailed him as the prize find of a decade. Far from achieving the collapse which his billing led sophisticated baseball addicts to expect, Rookie Di Maggio proceeded to make the notices seem inadequate. For his first month of play, he batted .400, fielded his position almost perfectly, hit safely...
...girl, escaped. He worked as a cowhand, knew Billy the Kid, outsmarted Old Man Chisum, was a storekeeper, justice of the peace, postmaster, road supervisor, once arranged to have Colorado City, Tex. shot up in his honor when his fortunes stood high. Now he travels from one auto tourist camp to another, looks like Walt Whitman, cherishes a grandiose plan to have grand canals built on both sides of the Continental Divide to save the Old West and solve the unemployment problem...