Word: contrivedness
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Last week before Justice Bonynge came the case of Percy C. Reed, owner of the Nassau Kennel Club, operator of dog races at the Mineola fairgrounds. Year ago Mr. Reed was accused of gambling, but the case was dismissed for want of evidence. Mr. Reed now appealed to Justice Bonynge...
After performing sensationally in four pre-season exhibition games, Di Maggio hurt his ankle. When the ankle healed, he developed a sun-lamp burn. In New York last week, unaware of what the Yankee Stadium looked like inside, fragile Di Maggio, a toothy Italian whose remarks to the Press suggested...
Beaming acknowledgment of the applause, 24-year-old Alec Templeton, blind Briton, performed one of the tricks which many in the audience had primarily come to witness. He asked Conductor Sundstrom to name five notes, which he swiftly contrived into a theme with variations in the manner of Bach, Mozart...
In spite of all temptations to take his tongue out of his cheek and go up higher, Author Stong remains at the top of his heap, lustily cock-a-doodling. At 36 he is president of the Authors Club. His latest novel. Career, pleased his friends, fooled nobody. A specious...
Even the architecture was tinged with Anglicism-Sir Christopher Wren's name is traditionally linked with the first college hall, built in 1697. Whether or not the designer of London's St. Paul's did send over a drawing, this hall went up in flames in 1705. Most likely the...