Word: cliffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Julian's father when she has to take her own invalid parent to Switzerland. Prying grown-ups catch Julian and Hildegarde taking a perfectly innocent sun bath after a swim. Hilclegarde's mother whisks her abroad; Julian in sick despair drives his rickety old motorbike over a cliff, tries to make it look like an accident. That clears the air; everything goes better. Julian is not killed; Hildegarde is rushed back to his hospital bedside; Pauline writes Julian's father that she cannot live without...
Died. Alfred Pearce Dennis, 62, ranking Democratic member of the U.S. Tariff Commission; by jumping off a cliff into the sea; at Bailey Island, Maine. Professor, night watchman, brakeman, merchant, writer, he was a colleague of Woodrow Wilson in the faculty of Princeton University, later went to Smith College where he became the friend of a young lawyer, Calvin Coolidge. He was an investigator in Europe for the Department of Commerce under Secretary Hoover, was appointed by President Coolidge to the Tariff Commission, which he once described to the Senate as a "debating society...
...morning in 1929 the Ausable countryside remained strangely quiet. Passenger trains had ceased running; the ticket windows were closed in Ausable Forks. Rogers, Arnold, Harkness, Peru, Salmon River, Cliff Haven, all the way to Plattsburg. And that might have been the end of passenger trains in the Ausable valley had not there soon returned from a trip to Greenland small, baldish Artist Rockwell Kent. When Artist Kent found there was no train to his home at the end of the line he was furious. Never afraid of a fight or of publicity, he determined to battle bushy-bearded old Railroader...
...motor till late in the evening, spent the rest of the night on a government fox farm whose three guards are the only inhabitants of Shimushiru Island. In the morning the Lindberghs rose at 5 o'clock, finally got the motor going and took off, from the quiet cliff-enclosed harbor, for Nemuro...
George, 12-year-old son of Comedian Cliff Edwards ("Ukulele Ike"), fell under a freight train near Chicago, had to have both legs amputated...