Word: denver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Denver, when Miles Brunswig asked Lucille Stute to marry him, she refused. He went home to Haigler, Neb., put a note in his home-town paper announcing his marriage to another girl. Lucille Stute took a train for Haigler to see what was what, found there was no other girl, married Miles Brunswig...
Pedestrians on the broad streets of Denver one day last week edged over to the curb and stared with amazement at a large, dark man who was calmly walking backwards, carefully avoiding hydrants and baby carriages. When police seized him by the arm and turned him around, he backed away from them, cocked his head over his shoulder, continued walking in reverse...
...Denver General Hospital he said that his name was John Bellinger, that he was 35 years old, that he was a cafe dishwasher, that he had always followed his nose until a few days before. Then he found it impossible to walk forward and, driven by an irresistible urge to walk backward, he began to follow another part of his body. Since hospital physicians found Bellinger in excellent physical health, they called in two psychiatrists...
...Denver, Colo., three-year-old Elaine Nybord started to play with an electric batter-mixer while it was mixing batter in a bowl. As it fell to the floor, it knocked her down, caught her by the curls, yanked most of them...
Died. Edward Prentiss Costigan, 64, liberal Democrat, onetime (1930-36) U. S. Senator from Colorado; of a heart attack induced by lobar pneumonia; in Denver...