Word: duncan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Charles A. Levine and Clarence Duncan Chamberlin...
Chamberlin v. Dragon, Flying passengers over Brooklyn, Pilot Clarence Duncan Chamberlin sighted a monster yellow-&-black dragon bobbing crazily about in the sky-one of the helium-filled balloons released from the annual Thanksgiving Day parade of R. H. Macy & Co. Pilot Chamberlin dived at the dragon, sheared off its head with his wingtip, carried it back to the field on his wing. Next day he received from Macy's one of the $25 rewards offered for the recovery of each monster...
...Bank, but the town is still called Sarasota, Fla. The bank and all the shops were closed last week to honor the latest benefaction of Sarasota's first citizen: the opening of the Junior College and School of Art of the John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art. Senator Duncan Upshaw Fletcher and Congressman Herbert Jackson Drane were there to make speeches. Bishop John Monroe Moore gave the benediction of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. His moonlike face wreathed in smiles, John Ringling himself was there to turn the buildings over to their new director, Dr. Ludd Myrl Spivey...
...great mutiny of 1797 when the underpaid, scurvy-ridden crews off Spithead and off the Nore turned on their officers. That came in the British Navy's most glorious period. Nelson had just helped win the Battle of Cape St. Vincent. Six months after the mutiny Admiral Duncan beat the Dutch at Camperdown...
Lamented Alexander Duncan Langmuir, Harvard 1931, onetime president of the Harvard Liberal Club: "Nothing but pinching shoes and empty stomachs will ever make American students sit up and realize that they have a government. . . . They are not even well-informed...