Word: conn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week's Christian Century reported the novel method by which 60 plump matrons of Pastor M. B. Lord's Kensington Methodist Church at Berlin, Conn., measured out the substantial token of their esteem for him. 'Midst much giggling and chaffing they passed tape measures about one another's waists. Total was 4,114 inches, an average of 68.5666 inches per matron. Unabashed, they gathered together a cent for each girth-inch; gave the $41.14 to their parson...
Born. To Mrs. & Rev. Tertius van Dyke, son of Rev. Dr. Henry van Dyke (famed author, onetime Princeton professor, onetime U. S. Minister to the Netherlands and Luxemburg); a son, at Washington, Conn...
...Waterbury, Conn., one William Hennesey heard that his friend, Christopher Walsh, was belittling him. Mr. Hennesey took his derringer, called on Mr. Walsh, fired, grazing Mr. Walsh's abdomen; fired again, hit himself in the hat. Doctors quieted Mr. Walsh, but when released from the hospital he called on Mr. Hennesey, thumped him, bumped, banged, kicked, bruised...
...Gossipy Sex. A Stamford (Conn.) audience advised Producer John Golden to take this play to Manhattan. It concerns a lisping tattletale in trousers, who so irks a houseful of guests that the Chief of Police himself yields to an itch to plug the stream of slander with a bullet. Unfortunately the shot misses. Actor Lynne Overman burlesqued his role of wag-tongue -which is about all that could be done with...
...Greenwich, Conn., a newborn chicken scampered fluffily about 30 years ago, on the estate of James G. Wessels, prominent citizen. Last week this onetime chicken, now a potent Sarah among fowls, cackled loudly, clearly. In its nest Mr. Wessels discovered a newly laid egg. Skeptics asked: "Could a hen that was young in the 90's lay an egg in 1927?" Answered Mr. Wessels: "Here is the egg to prove...