Word: downes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week little Lizzie went down to Ferguson's room to reprove him again. "Walter," she piped, outside his door. "Be quiet! Stop making that noise!"
Sam Fox, an insurance collector, was coming down the stairs. He saw Ferguson, naked, reach out and seize little Lizzie, whisk her into his room, slam the door. Fox ran for a policeman. "You can't come in here!" Ferguson shouted to them. "Nobody can come in here but...
Last week Eton and Harrow played again at the exclusive Lord's Cricket Ground near London. Harrow, for the first time since 1908, won. It was too much for Harrovians, young and old, and they rushed on to the field to carry off the winning team on their shoulders...
One report had it that an old lung ailment had returned and that inactivity had been prescribed for her. Another report (published in Paris by the weekly Aux Ecoutes) had it that the ambitious Edda had recently overreached herself in a quarrel with Crown Prince Umberto and his wife, the...
Irked by Japanese boasts of knocking down Russian planes like clay pigeons, Red aviators bombed the railhead at Halunarshan, 125 miles behind the front. The Japanese had scarcely begun to protest that this was not cricket when a squadron of Russian bombers peppered Furoruji, almost 400 miles from the scene...