Word: chase
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Outside the King's chauffeur put on such speed that only a most desperate chase could have caught Mrs. Simpson, but after her Buick flashed out of Ipswich, police swung one of their cars squarely across the road and blocked traffic for ten minutes. Eminent London counsel in Ipswich for the Assizes who had previously called stories about the King and Mrs. Simpson "vulgar American tosh," ended by admitting to U. S. correspondents in Ipswich that in their entire experience at the British Bar they had never witnessed such proceedings, concluded that Ipswich authorities were acting to please Edward...
...varied since only by shortening of the crucial time. "Where did the New Deal come from?" Mrs. Davie has asked. Her answer: "In 1932 Stuart Chase, a Socialist, said to be a former associate of the Alexander Berkman Red radicals, published a book entitled A New Deal...
Died. Arthur Chase Needles, 69, since 1924 president of Norfolk & Western Railway; of bronchial asthma; in Roanoke...
...romantic portrait of its hero with most emphasis on his picturesque frontier experiences, his difficulties in England and France, little emphasis on his harsh discouragements. Its high point deals with Audubon's awakening ambitions in the South. The dramatic bird life of Louisiana, where adroit and playful mockingbirds chase dogs and torment cats, while sparrows look on in excitement', enchanted Audubon. There he conceived his great and precious folios of the Birds of America that are now collectors' rarities valued at $10,000. He painted woodpeckers, flycatchers, studied the chuck-will's-widow that moves...
...University officers who are ex-officio members of the Council are: President James B. Conant; G. D. Birkhoff, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences; G. H. Chase, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; Richard M. Gummere, Chairman, Committee on Admission; A. Chester Hanford, Dean of Harvard College; Delmar Leighton, Dean of Freshmen; Geoffrey W. Lewis, Secretary of the Council; and A. F. Whittem, Director of University Extension