Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tommy Armour's 288; at Olympia Fields, Chicago. On the second day of the tournament, detectives discovered that Chicago's Public Enemy No. 4, "Machine Gun Jack" McGurn, was playing in it under his real name of Vincent Gebardi. They arrested him for vagrancy at the eighth tee, where his score was one under par, accompanied him for the remaining holes. Disturbed, Golfer McGurn took an 11 at the 8th, had a card of 86, withdrew...
...Jesse Louis Lasky, last week filed a debtor's petition under the new Federal bank ruptcy act. He listed assets of $134,000, liabilities of $2,020,000, laid his troubles to having personally guaranteed bond issues for Manhattan's Fifty-Seventh Street Building Co. and Eighth Avenue Building Corp. Said he: "I feel that I have been more than fair with all my creditors, for in order to pay the charges on the properties above mentioned. I have had to borrow and otherwise sacrifice. I am very willing, and intend to turn over all my assets...
...Eighth-Thou shalt not suffer the paradox of poverty amid plenty else thou sinnest grievously...
...Saturday afternoons in 1859 Manhattanites trooped to Hope Chapel at Broadway and Eighth Street. At the door "scholars" paid 6?, all others 15?. Inside they climbed a dark stairway to a big covered platform. Hidden gas lamps above lit a circle of landscapes 15 ft. high. Soon a lecturer appeared and talked steadily through the audience's vicarious "Tour Through Italy." The canvas cylinder moved slowly, exposing seriatim the start in Boston Harbor, the rolling Atlantic, several hundred views of Italy and finally the return home to New York Harbor...
...Duxbury the home of John Alden will be visited. This house contains choice treasures of colonial life and at present is occupied by John Alden, a direct descendent, in the eighth generation, of the John Alden who married Priscilla...