Word: chase
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ground like rabbits by the British Press. At Liverpool waited some 100 British newshawks and a score from the continent, ready with tugs, speedboats, airplanes and racing automobiles to circumvent any Lindbergh attempt to escape from their questions and cameras. Held back at the dock by police, they gave chase in automobiles, were balked when their prey holed up in a Liverpool hotel. Angrily they haunched down in the lobby, prepared to pounce at the first opportunity...
...correspondents were still prowling about when Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh bundled Jon out the hotel servants' entrance and into a waiting limousine, sped off with Mrs. Lindbergh's brother-in-law. Aubrey Neil Morgan, toward the home of his father near Cardiff, Wales. A few newshawks gave chase in a taxicab, soon lost the trail. Speeding to Cardiff by train, they found all entrances to the Morgan estate guarded, all servants pledged to silence...
...with which the mass of U. S. editors compared native law & justice with the British variety. A dozen U. S. Senators called for new laws against crime and aliens, and New York's Mayor LaGuardia exclaimed with magnificent irrelevance: "Rather than have a Lindbergh exile himself, we will chase these punks out of the city...
...been at different times a dentist's assistant, an electrical engineer, an errand boy, a stenographer, an insurance clerk and a job printer, mechanical dexterity came easy. Studying painting at various times with William Merritt Chase, Robert Henri and Kenneth Hayes Miller, Max Kuehne started making his own picture frames because he could not afford to buy any. It was not long before he was making many of the frames for the Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pa., the Whitney Museum in Manhattan. From frames he went in for furniture, later for lacquer screens...
With each change of opera there was some new singer. German Baritone Eduard Habich was the tipsy, loud-mouthed father in Hänsel und Gretel. Baritone Julius Huehn from Pittsburgh made a sonorous herald for Lohengrin. Chase Baromeo of the late Chicago Civic Opera was the High Priest in Aïda. Chilean Carlo Morelli went through the customary antics as Marcello...