Word: conrad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Persons telephoning the State Lodge are not always successful in establishing personal communication with the President or Mrs. Coolidge. But Miss Angie Conrad of Rapid City never has trouble in securing the attention of Mrs. Coolidge. Miss Conrad is an employee of the meat market at which Mrs. Coolidge buys provisions. And when Lodge attendants answer the telephone and hear that "Schuster's Meat Market" is talking, they know that the call should be put through. With Miss Ellen Riley,. White House housekeeper, still on sick leave, Mrs. Coolidge has been doing the presidential family shopping...
Having spoken these words, a judge at Old Bailey Court, London, imposed sentence of "twelve months imprisonment without hard labor" last week upon Alfred Borys Conrad, who had just pleaded guilty to a charge of converting to his own use ?1,100 ($5,346) entrusted to him to buy certain manuscripts of his late father, Novelist Joseph Conrad...
...Richard Curie, literary executor of Joseph Conrad, testified for son Conrad, saying: "Arthur returned from the War a changed man mentally...
...hand identified with a notorious murder is his own. So accustomed is he to eating, drinking, smoking with his toes, that even when free from the straps, his hands dangle idle. Later, after being provoked to a second murder, he amputates the tell-tale arms. Impetuous Youth (Elizabeth Bergner, Conrad Veidt). Ufa, German producers famed for Variety, Siegfried, The Last Laugh, Faust and other inspired ventures, have bogged this time. Their heroine is a girl jealous of her stepmother's affection for her father. She leaves home, later flees school, to wander gypsy-like in the dress...
...York State. * Each characteristic line, loop, arch, whorl of a set of fingerprints is numbered. The set is classified, can then be decoded for identification. †Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Browning, George Meredith, Burne-Jones, Rossetti, Ruskin, Kipling, Conrad, Hugh Waipole, Thomas Hardy, Walter de la Mare, Rupert Brooke, Henry James...