Word: downes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Within a short time German planes circled the boat. "As each bomber swooped down on us, [the sailors] shook their fists and yelled what sounded like 'Flu, Flu, Flu.'* I laughed at them. . . . But it really was ghastly of those bombers to do that-it made those fine...
After 38 hours in the water five men clinging to the jury raft had to be dragged aboard the dinghy. On the third night of drifting without food or water, they sighted a ship. The first mate took out his bosun's whistle and "blew and blew and blew...
There are only two fundamental rules-hit fairly; stick to the issue. Down at Atlanta Penitentiary the boys can hardly wait for the program to go on Thursday nights. Just as ardent are some 5,000,000 U. S. radio listeners, including members of some 1,400 groups which gather...
Down-to-earth is Playwright Howard's tale of an elderly Italian winegrower in the Napa Valley who courts a San Francisco waitress by mail, palming off his handsome young foreman's photograph as his own; of the girl's disillusionment on seeing him, her going through...
Died. Dr. Harvey Gushing, 70, world's No. 1 brain surgeon, author of Pulitzer-Prizewinning Life of Sir William Osler (1925), father-in-law of the President's eldest son, James Roosevelt; of a heart attack; in New Haven, Conn. Bright-eyed, white-haired Harvey Cushing's...