Word: ch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Walker he has friends always anxious to do him favors. Premier Bennett waits for no summons. Last week, anxious to throttle a "whispering campaign," he hurried before the Canadian Parliament's Committee on National Railways to explain about the rent he is paying for his suite in the Cháteau Laurier...
Colyumist Arthur Brisbane, who has never touched tobacco but who as a youngster delighted the late Charles Anderson Dana by recognizing Cháteau Yquem by taste, made his first visit to one of Manhattan's 50,000 speakeasies, found in it material for a half-column description. Excerpts: ''It is one o'clock in the day and somewhat surprised you see every seat occupied, practically all of them by young girls, chatting with the bartenders, taking cocktails or 'absinthe drip,' if you know what that is.* Some experienced, with mucous membranes well seasoned...
...chewed gum apathetically. After hearing his defense, which attributed the murders to two mythical acquaintances of Powers', a jury of farmers and townspeople retired to the star's dressing room, deliberated for not quite two hours. From his desk which was framed by papier-mâché trees, the judge heard the verdict read: murder in the first degree. He sentenced West Virginia's "Bluebeard" to hang Friday, March 18, 1932. Unmoved, little Murderer Powers was led away on his chain, the court room's footlights extinguished...
Manhattan Realestatesman Robert Walton Goelet gave a shoot at Château Sandrincourt, near Paris, for the Duke of Toledo (Alfonso of Spain...
...special patroness (possibly identified also with pre-Christian goddesses), their celebration of Dec. 12 is exceedingly lively. Says Terry: "Foreigners find this unique, but trying. The unhygienic and ignorant Indians overrun the village to such an extent that the problem of preventing pestilence is a serious one. . . . The ch. is usually packed to suffocation: the devotees bring habits and an entomological congress as varied as they are astonishing, all the ch. decorations within reach are kissed to a high polish and thoroughly fumigated later, and all breathe freer when the frenzied shriners have returned to their different homes...