Word: daniels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...backwoods Bannisters, for all their advantages of fresh air and beautiful scenery, lived in a condition of squalor equal to that of any city slum. Heavy, truculent Mother Bannister was the township's "fast woman." In peaked caps and corduroy breeches, her sons, pinheaded Daniel and grinning Arthur, snared rabbits in the woods. So irredeemably relaxed were the Bannister morals that a Salvation Army officer assigned to improve their lot ended by undoing 13-year-old daughter Marie. At about that time the Bannisters got their bright idea...
Last week pinheaded Daniel Bannister was convicted of murder, the jury recommending clemency. The judge called up the two youths and, wiping his mouth with his handkerchief, muttered, "I sentence you to be hanged by the neck until you are dead and may Almighty God have mercy on your souls...
Ollerup Rally. A chill Danish dawn found Rev. Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman asleep in his room at the Hotel Gymnastik. Once awake, he lay abed for an hour "receiving the orders of the day from God." Per orders, Frank Buchman breakfasted with his jolly disciples, later made his way to the private stadium of Physical Culturist Niels Bukh for what he had expected to be the Oxford Group's GREATEST HOUSEPARTY. However, bad weather cut the attendance down below a measly...
...surroundings at Houston's swank River Oaks Country Club were novel. Not so the results. Daniel Hernandez, a freshman at the University of Mexico and his country's newest star, made Grant scramble but the best he got was one set to Grant's three. Esteban Reyes, nicknamed "Pajaro" (Bird), Mexico's No. 1, got five games in three sets against Budge. Next day, Allison played 18 holes of near-par golf, joined his partner Van Ryn to run through Flavio Martinez and Marco Antonio Mestre 6-0, 6-2, went back to the links...
Caught at the centre of all this to-do over discipline at sea was Secretary of Commerce Daniel Roper. When he got a look at the Weaver dossier he thought some items to be of sufficient gravity to lay before President Roosevelt and the Cabinet...