Word: delling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hundreds of people were turned away from the Powers trial at Clarksburg, although the authorities took care of as many spectators as they could by holding it in Moore's Opera House. Outside were sold phonograph records, sheet music composed about the Quiet Dell tragedy, a pamphlet called The Love Secrets of West Virginia's Bluebeard. Led into the Opera House every day on a chain like a little bear, Mr. Powers sat on the stage and chewed gum apathetically. After hearing his defense, which attributed the murders to two mythical acquaintances of Powers', a jury...
...been horrified to learn that a Mrs. Dorothy Pressler Lemke, matronly divorced nurse of Northboro, Mass., had been found murdered and buried in the Blue Ridge Mountains of West Virginia after a postal courtship. Accused of the killing was small, pudgy, pig-eyed Harry F. Powers of Quiet Dell. In his house was found a trunk full of correspondence from women all over the U. S. Buried near his garage was found another of his correspondents, Mrs. Asta Buick Eicher of Park Ridge, Ill., together with the bodies of her three children. Mr. Powers' system : mail-order them, marry...
...advertising for all of the military camp papers in the East. Afterward he organized an agency to handle circulation for Current Opinion, Le Bon Ton, Popular Radio. Ten years ago, with the late crippled Author William Andrew Johnston (Limpy), longtime editor of the New York Sunday World, he started Dell Publishing Co. Their first publications were 10 cents pamphlets on "character analysis," meaning of birthdays, horoscopes, etc.. etc. First Dell magazine was Sweetheart Stories, which the house still publishes. Next was War Stones which Publisher Delacorte claims opened that particular field in which 22 competitors appeared in two years...
What does your husband call you-my wife, the missus or my woman? What do you say-a dingle, dale, gulch, dell, vale or gully? Father, pa, pop, popper, pappy, dad or daddy? Has a cherry a seed,.stone or pit? These things you may be asked if you live in New England and if during the next 15 months you do not deliberately snub or elude the inquisitive gentleman who represents the American Council of Learned Societies. Armed with a list of 1,000 questions, he will be combing the countryside, quizzing housewives, laborers, farmers, bankers, fisherfolk. To compile...
After two weeks at the Stadium, he will go to Philadelphia where he, too, will conduct a week at Robin Hood Dell...