Word: eaten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...half-open and a sawed-off shotgun in his hand. Bonnie Parker, wearing a red dress, was doubled up with a submachine gun in her lap. There were two other machine guns, another sawed-off automatic shotgun, six automatic pistols, a revolver, a saxophone, sheet music, a half-eaten sandwich, a bloody package of cigarets, and $507 in cash in the car. "I hated," said Captain Hamer, "to bust a cap on a woman, especially when she was sitting down...
...quarter-century of strenuous and unrelenting labor has finally spelled the demise of the faithful old Randolph Hall switch-board, and yesterday its time-worn panels and moth-eaten cords were removed forever from the hallowed and ivy-covered environs which it has known for so long...
PRODIGAL DAYS-Evelyn Nesbit-Messner ($2.50). The bone of contention between Harry K. Thaw and the late Stanford White tells all to the public. THE POEMS OF RICHARD ALDINGTON- Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Collected poems: The Eaten Heart, A Dream in the Luxembourg, et al.; some new ones. A CHILD WENT FORTH-Helen MacKnight Doyle, M. D.-Gotham House ($3). Autobiography of a woman doctor in the West, famed as a U. S. pioneer in her profession. THE ROMANCE OF LABRADOR-Sir Wilfred Grenfell-Macmillan ($4). Famed missionary-doctor looks at the past, present and future of his adopted country...
...Greek who three years ago succeeded the late infamous Henri Desire Landru as France's most spectacular murderer when a M. Poncel returned from a vacation in Italy to his villa near Marseilles. M. Poncel found the dining room floor ruined by strange stains, a heap of acid-eaten rags near the garden hedge, and a horrid stinking mess in a corner of the garden. Georges Sarret had prepared carefully for his chosen profession of insurance murderer by studying medicine, chemistry and law at Marseilles. He also needed confederates. These he found in the persons of the Bavarian sisters...
...American Water Works & Electric, submitted his annual report. In 1933, he told stockholders, Water Works earned $3,337,000, as against $3,596,000 the year before. But President Porter wanted to impress something more on his stockholders' minds. During the year local, State and Federal taxes had eaten up 9.3? of each $1 that Water Works took in. For every $1 earned for common stockholders, $1.85 was earmarked for taxes...