Word: curtise
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Col. Henry Breckinridge, friend and legal adviser of Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, left his client's side for the first time in more than two months, flew to the Kentucky Derby. John Hughes Curtis, Norfolk, Va. boat builder, vanished on another of his mysterious yacht cruises.
Salesman & Builder. Bishop Freeman does not attempt to express Washington Cathedral's glory in figures. To raise money he has resorted to dramatic speeches and to committees (such as the Women's, chairmanned by Mrs. Herbert Hoover, which is giving the North Porch ?TIME, May 25). There are many...
Down will come Hoover, Curtis and all.
The next three scenes described the contrasting influences of North & South. Sailors on a southbound cargo ship jumped about in brisk, energetic fashion until plump sirens with fishlike feet got aboard, started playing guitars and wriggling their hips. Officers forgot to give orders then, left the bridge. In a tropical...
Norfolk police tactfully kept hands off the case, but Coast Guard patrols and Baltimore police boats combed Chesapeake Bay in the belief that the babe was being held aboard some craft concealed up a bayou. Meantime, Boat-Builder Curtis evaded the police over Easter weekend, reappeared with the news that...