Word: cora
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forgotten last week by officials of United Shipyards, Inc. as they prepared to launch the 1,500-ton destroyer Fanning they were building at their Staten Island yard for the U. S. Navy at a cost of $4,000,000. When the morning chosen for the launching arrived, Miss Cora Arinna Marsh of New London, Conn., great-great-granddaughter of Lieut. Nathaniel Fanning, Revolutionary naval hero dressed in her smartest clothes, journeyed to a Manhattan pier and waited to be ferried to Staten Island on an official tug. At the same time more than 250 invited guests made their...
...Last of the Mohicans (Reliance). During the siege of Fort William Henry on Lake George by the French and Hurons under Montcalm (1757), two daughters of the British commander, Alice (Binnie Barnes) and Cora Munro (Heather Angel) set out from Albany for the Fort...
...Aunt Eugenia (Billie Burke). When his pursuit of Ann costs him his job, he boils the pot with a comic strip inspired by those members of her family whom he has met through his father-the henpecked uncle (Grant Mitchell), the socially ambitious, bullying Mrs. Nesta Pett (Cora Wither spoon), the incorrigible, Eton-suited little nephew (Tommy Bupp). As the Richswitch family of the strip, they become the instantly recognized and hilariously appreciated source of an international guffaw. Only by reconstructing the characters in the strip does Piccadilly Jim restore the abused Petts to sanity, establish himself with Ann, preserve...
Married- Mrs. Cora Lillian Bennett, widow of famed Aviator Floyd Bennett; ant Arthur Hoffman, Manhattan music copyright investigator; in Brooklyn...
...reporters on the job in Gordonsville, Va. the other night when Cora Walles and her brother William were finally killed and the house burned around their bodies, I cannot help resenting the reflections cast in your last paragraph on members of the posse slicing up the bodies of the dead negroes and taking them home for souvenirs (TIME, May 25). That part of the account is absolutely false, as the bodies were turned over to a licensed undertaker, who buried both bodies in the family burying ground on the place where the unfortunate battle between the members of the finest...