Word: dexterous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...DEXTER H. DEAN San Francisco, Calif...
This time the directors put President Frederick Dexter Corley, an up-from-the-ranks conservative, in charge. And James Simpson, onetime president and a power on the board, began taking time out from his job running the Commonwealth Edison utilities to make regular visits to the Field office. Vice-President James P. Margeson
...finance research and advertising for Progressive Education, P. E. A. needed money. It did not need to look outside its own group, for one of its members was gentle, modest Mrs. Avery Coonley, daughter of Capitalist Dexter Mason Ferry (Ferry Seeds), who was running a little Progressive school in Downer's Grove, Ill. Watered by Mrs. Coonley's gifts, P. E. A. flourished and Progressive Education burst into bloom...
Since the death last year of Dexter Fellows, circus pressagent extraordinary and perennial, the literature of the circus has seemed as subdued as mourning. With Big Show, the first novel of a circus-loving staff member of The New Yorker, the circus goes to town in bigger & better literary spangles than ever. A three-ring romance presenting a tender love story, an engaging dog story and authentic circus life, Big Show shares with Dexter Fellows' ballyhoo the distinction of being frequently livelier than the circus itself...
...huge python and has a miscarriage. And every high-wire leap plunges Bob closer to a nervous breakdown. When he is only a few days away from a psychopathic ward, Ann hatches a scheme to get him fired. In the big, happy finale, superpressagent Wright Boyes (a ringer for Dexter Fellows) sends them off with good wishes for a long life of headlining with fine medium-sized circuses...