Word: divericate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Frank P. Blair, Chicago diver, last week adjusted his helmet, slowly submerged himself in Lake Michigan. With careful, heavy movements he prowled around the bottom, searched through jumbled cans, tires, bottles. Diver Blair is a good searcher. He it was who recovered from the muddy Jackson Park Lagoon the typewriter which helped incriminate Murderers Leopold and Loeb in 1924. When he emerged last week, he brought up two heavy objects. They were counterfeit seals of the University of Chicago and Northwestern University...
Legitimate doctors and frightened patients in Illinois have asked for an immediate investigation into all medical licenses and diplomas. Authorities pointed out that because the forged diplomas were from many a college besides Chicago and Northwestern, to weed out all quacks would be almost impossible. Nevertheless, Diver Blair was sent on another search, at a certain spot on the bottom of Chicago's drainage canal, where the forgers confessed having thrown their spurious engraving plates...
...Diego in the Pacific last week the V4, largest U. S. submarine, "sank" in 86 feet of water, carrying down a crew of 87 officers & men. Thirty-nine minutes later they heard the welcome thump of a diver's 20-lb. shoes on her deck. Above was the rescue vessel Ortolan, from which air lines were attached to the VJs salvage plugs. Fresh air was first pumped into the crew compartments, then into the ballast tanks, from which the water was blown. Twenty-three minutes later the Pacific's blue surface churned with foam...
...decade or so ago, Manhattan's Hippodrome was famed for monster, lustrous theatricals. Visitors swarmed to see such sights as Bandman Sousa, Skater Charlotte, Diver Annette Kellerman, Buffoon Nat Willis and whole menageries of animals in congress on one huge stage. Behind the scenes was Showman R. H. Burnside, purveyor of size rather than taste...
Submarine. Handsome Jack Dorgan was a Navy diver. Between him and Bob Mason there was much horseplay and jostling, which, as every cinemaddict knows, is the way strong men have of showing affection for each other. Handsome Jack (Jack Holt) has an affair with Snuggles (Dorothy Revier), grows so fond of her ways that he actually marries her. Unknown to Handsome Jack, Snuggles seduces Best Friend Mason who happens to be a member of a submarine crew. When Jack learns that there has been an affair he is angry with his friend. The submarine in which Mason is cruising...