Word: clairs
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...slippery, clay ditch. Two welders banged their helmets down over their faces, descended into the ditch, self-conscious at doing their daily routine before 800 people. Their electric torches flared briefly, shooting a sizzling glare in the bright sunlight. The vital work done, short, rotund Interior Secretary Harold Le Clair Ickes stepped gingerly down into the pit, posed for the photographers. Big Inch was through...
...famed for its skillful surgeons, its spacious research laboratories. But when ailing Edsel Bryant Ford stepped through its doors seven weeks ago with his quick, springy stride, nothing could be done for him. So, at 49, Edsel Ford returned to his sprawling grey stone house beside grey Lake St. Clair to await death. Last week it came...
...Thunder rolls on the Potomac when reference is made to Curmudgeon Ickes' middle name. Spelled sometimes Le Clair, sometimes Le Claire or LeClare, the correct spelling has never been discovered. Ickes intimates who have put the question, and survived, hint that LeClare is Ickes' most-favored version of his mosthated name...
...apartment Gangsters James O'Connor and St. Clair Mclnerney elected to shoot it out; they were mowed down by a crossfire from FBI shotguns. At the other apartment their pals woke up at 5 o'clock in the morning to find the street brilliant with searchlights, to hear a loudspeaker blare: "Basil Banghart, Roger Touhy, Edward Darlak. We know that you are in there. . . . Come out with your hands up. One at a time...
Into the Marine Corps went Ernest Nelson Chennault, brother of the Flying Tigers' Brigadier General Clair, whose youngest son, Robert Kenneth, 17, went into the Navy last fortnight...