Word: devereux
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That was just the beginning - after the first aerial assault that had told them the show was on. Bantam (5 ft. 5 in.) Major James Patrick Sinnott Devereux, the detachment commander, returned a Marine's answer: "Come and get us." The Jap got another answer. Somehow, either by bombardment from the four fighter planes still on the island (eight had been smashed by the enemy) or by fire from his six 5-in. guns, little Jimmie Devereux sank the cruiser and one of the destroyers. He reported it tersely to Honolulu. Later he reported his men had sunk...
...days after Maryland's Representative William Devereux Byron died in a plane crash last March, Mrs. Byron gave Maryland party bosses a hearty laugh by announcing her candidacy "to carry on Bill's work." But Katharine Byron lined up Democratic delegates, ran away with the convention, went to work on her Republican opponent, A. Charles Stewart. Her campaign was simple and personal. She would stop people on the street and say: "I'm Katharine Byron, and I'd appreciate your vote." When the ballots were in, she had a slim 1,200-vote margin...
...wreckage waiting for help. One man went to find it, fell in a ravine, stood in water until morning. When men with stretchers came on them at dawn, the nine who were alive grinned with blue lips. The seven dead, including Maryland's Congressman William Devereux Byron, had to wait...
...Ernest G. Swigert, William S. Draper, Roger C. Fenn, John S. Fleek, Robert T. Gannett, Joseph Garland, James M. Graham, Reginald Gray, S. Eliot Guild, R. Cushing Hamlen, Huntington R. Hardwick, Bartlett Harwood, Lawrence Hemenway, Edwin H. Heminway, Christian A. Herter, Leverett F. Hooper, John K. Howard, Coleman Jennings, Devereux C. Josephs, Malcolm J. Logan, John P. Marquand, Charles E. Mead, Benry H. Mayer, Edward S. Munro...
...danger and in working toward a solution. So we shouldn't see The Fight For Life ! That reminds me of the story about joe Louis when asked if he had seen the pictures of the first Louis-Schmeling fight. "No," he said, "I was at the fight." JOYCE DEVEREUX New York City...