Word: daniels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lucky Jaspara Servia recovered, after Dr. John S. Deyell of Ravenna sewed up two five-inch rips in the bowel. Pranksters Daniel Desko and Frank Pudaski, who admitted inflating Servia as "a practical joke," were arrested, held in $500 bond on charges of assault...
...Daniel Starch & Staff New York...
Well does Secretary of Commerce Daniel Calhoun Roper know how to pleasure his friends. He does it by importing watermelons from his native South Carolina. So tender and so succulent are these great green fruit that he has them brought by automobile lest they be damaged traveling by rail. Last week he pleasured newshawks by presenting his weekly press conference with two enormous South Carolina melons, 3 ft. long and weighing, by report, 80 Ib. each...
Endemic in China, India, Arabia and California, the Black Death killed 60,000,000 people in the 14th and 15th Centuries. In 1665 it devastated London, was graphically described by Daniel Defoe in his Journal of the Plague Year...
...year George Washington made peace with George III a young Hartford, Conn.† lawyer named Noah Webster (no kin to the later Daniel) published a spelling book. In 1807 he set his great jaw, sat down to write an up-to-date dictionary of the English language. The spelling book, a best seller, supported him for the 21 years it took to pen definitions of 70,000 words. The first Webster was published in 1828 and its author lived long enough to revise it in 1840. When he died in 1843 G. & C. Merriam of Springfield, Mass, bought the unsold...