Word: downes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hopefully the reporters put it all down. For days they had been following the dewy-eyed romance of George Lowther 3rd, 30, Yaleman. insurance broker, cafe socialite, and Eileen Herrick, 20, only daughter of stern Walter R. Herrick, onetime Park Commissioner of New York City. George wanted to marry Eileen...
"Well, he has taken her to a beach club. ... It is a place where kept women go. There are no respectable girls down there. . . . Then, we had another little unfortunate incident. Would you like to hear it?"
At last, long overdue, Penguin rumbled up to North Star's, Boston dock. There was still one ticklish job left-getting Penguin aboard. Since the monster was too big for its berth, ten feet of its tail had to be amputated with acetylene torches. Then, when the tide lifted...
>To the sarcastic wonder of many a dissident Republican, John D. M. Hamilton, GOP National Committee chief, announced he was run down from overwork, was taking a ten-day vacation.
Humpty France and Dumpty Germany continued sitting on their walls last week. Neither had a great fall and neither required more horses or men. The French did some digging in and dragged up some heavy artillery back of Perl at their supposedly "weak" corner by the Luxembourg frontier, where the...