Word: delbert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most popular member of a daringly co-educational experiment. And after her four bright college years an admiring faculty invited her to join them as teacher of grammar. Ella took her job very seriously, even in off-hours. Then love came to Ella; his name was Delbert. But a kitteny young cousin snatched Delbert away by seducing him. Ella put away her wedding dress and stood by for further trouble. It came: Death took Delbert and his kittenish wife, leaving Ella with her rival's baby. She called the baby Hope, brought her up as her niece...
Islanders who continued to hope they would be appointed Governor of Hawaii despite a change in the law included Rufus Hagood, Honolulu physician; William B. Pittman, Honolulu lawyer, brother of Nevada's Key Pittman who is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Delbert E. Metger, chairman of last year's territorial Democratic convention, and John H. Wilson, Scotch-Irish-Tahitian-Hawaiian who, at the age of 12, used to polish guns in the royal Hawaiian armory...
...Delbert Earle Replogle, vice president of Jenkins Television Corp., laughed at Mr. Sarnoff's statement. Said he: "Commercial television will be here in six or eight months." Televisionary Mr. Replogle had just come from Washington where he had conferred with the Federal Radio Commission on licensing television stations for commercial work. Though vague about his talk, he said it had been "most promising...