Word: davids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Died. David Septillu, aged "Reindeer King," wealthiest Alaskan Eskimo; on ice-locked St. Lawrence Island, Bering Sea, A rescue plane made repeated attempts to get through a blizzard in order to carry him to surgical aid, and medical instructions were radioed every hour to his nurse, from Nome...
...David Lloyd Garrison, of West Newton...
Andrew W. Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury: "Waves leaped high, smote windows and doors on the upper decks. The British White Star liner Olympic rolled like the tub of a washing machine. Said I, on being greeted by Ambassador Myron T. Herrick and my son-in-law, David K. E. Bruce, in Paris: 'It was a severe crossing, one of the worst I ever experienced.' I am in Europe, not for politics, but to visit my daughter who has recently been operated upon for appendicitis, in Rome...
Faithful, persistent David O'Shea of Skibbereen, Ireland, courted his fiancee for seven years with large and shiny gifts?40 of them?one for every Christmas, every Easter, every birthday. . . . Last week she, no mummy, broke off the engagement. All the gifts had been coffins. Mr. O'Shea wanted his 40 coffins back, so he sued her for breach of promise...
...Scalawag. David Higgins is known over the length and breadth of the land for His Last Dollar, a play written, acted, produced by him for more than a decade. In this new piece, he again enacts a lovable, old scamp bent on doing good in the wickedest ways. He would marry his pretty granddaughter to the grandson of his partner (in the garage business). The grandson helps himself into trouble by helping out a bootlegging World War veteran. But the aged rascal fixes everything. The play consists for the most part of "canned" gag situations of the reliable "old soak...