Word: carli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...look like a neophyte." This sombre testimonial was justified shortly after the Goodland bank robbery. Pursued by two policemen, Brady & friends hid behind a church at a crossroads. When the officers drove up, the gang opened fire with automatic rifles and shotguns. Trooper Paul Minneman fell out of the car. Brady walked over to him. "This------'s dead," he said...
...years after he formed the first of his three Governments, 69-year-old Prime Minister Baldwin entered Buckingham Palace to hand over to King George the seals of his office. Forty-five minutes later plain Mr. Baldwin reappeared, and pulling blandly at a cherry-wood pipe, entered his car. Tucked under one arm were two framed, inscribed photographs of Their Majesties...
There was a wedding rehearsal. The little doctor-mayor of Monts, Charles Mercier, announced that he would give up "my usual muddy little buggy" for a handsome car, and that he was buying a new cutaway coat for the ceremony. Running through the brief service, he found the Duke of Windsor halting but adequate in French, Mrs. Warfield fluent. "You needn't worry," cracked twice-married Wallis Warfield. "I know the responses...
...trouble, only one had real trouble-a crash which knocked out both driver and mechanic. First to finish was dapper little Wilbur Shaw of Indianapolis, who set a new record for the race by averaging 113.58 m.p.h. Only 20 yd. behind was Ralph Hepburn of Los Angeles in the car which Louis Meyer drove to victory last year. Third was Ted Horn, also of Los Angeles. To winner Shaw went some $40,000, mostly put up by automobile men who consider the race a good way to test their products...
...year-old S. Allen Norton, who was Mount Hermon's cashier at the time of Headmaster Speer's death and who retired to nearby Greenfield last August, went to see the police. In a state of high agitation Oldster Norton related that he was putting his car in the garage when he saw a man standing in the door, pointing a shotgun at him. "Hey, Norton, I want to talk to you," Mr. Norton said the man said. He dodged behind his car, saw his assailant run off across the lawn. A maid employed in a neighboring home...