Word: duringer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Near the end of the semifinal round occurred an incident characteristic of tournament bridge, which is played with fierce attention to technicalities like a small boys' baseball game. In a nip-&-tuck match, A. Mitchell Barnes of the Vanderbilt team, playing a five-heart doubled contract, led a heart...
In Detroit, Hotel Manager William 0. Seelbach, thinking (with a wink) to insure the city against rain during an outdoor industrial exhibition, invited 67-year-old Rain Maker Lillie Stoat of Oxford, Miss. (TIME, April 10) to come to Detroit while the show was on, without her umbrella. Rain Maker...
In Calgary, Alberta, the Reverend H. M. Hamnett planned to have one of his big toes cut off. Announced reason: the toe was grafted from the amputated foot of a German during the World War, since the European crisis has been "kicking up."
The Author. Wiry, soft-voiced, 39-year-old Cecil Scott Forester has written more than 20 books, took 15 years to find the public's range. Born in Cairo, Egypt, the son of a British civil servant, he first took to writing (verse) when he was a medical student...
One bomby Sunday afternoon, Mona Gardner sat in a Shanghai park talking Chinese poetry during a Japanese air raid. Outside, Soochow Lane was jampacked with coolies toting vegetables to Shanghai's International Settlement, and fugitives toting babies, bedding, household goods to safety. Neither vegetables nor babies arrived. Suddenly a...