Word: em
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Avenue one night last week. In the dark hallway a light was flashed into his face. He saw the glint of a revolver. "Stick 'em up!" a hard voice ordered. Instead, Dr. Leiva, 51 and husky, fell upon the intruder, grappled for his throat. They wrestled about. The pistol fired wildly. "Pete! Pete!" called the stranger and up from the basement came "Pete" to join the tussle. Dr. Leiva was given a hard pate-pounding with a revolver butt. Blood blinded him. He dropped to the floor. The burglars escaped out a rear entrance...
spite 'em...
...Bullett-Knopf ($2.50). "And the next I do knaw, us be noaten across the grass, and there afront of us, setten on our green downs, neighbors, be a parcel of blessed angels. Hugy gurt baastards they be, twenny feet or more from crown to anklebone, and some of 'em as black as coal. . . ."-thus honest Yokel Mykelborne holding forth in the taproom to his fellow-worthies, who listened chopfallen, goggle-eyed. Such fine and pungent talk was to be had almost any evening in the inn at Marden Fee, and it is the chorus of talk, not the incidental...
Said the man known as Capone to newsmen last week: "I ain't dead, but it's all right for 'em to think so if they want...
...female Fellows. Average grant: $2,500. To China, Europe and Latin America they will go, some of them perhaps to try to emulate Poet Stephen Vincent Benet, who wrote John Brown's Body during his year abroad. Among the fellows: Author Maurice Hindus (Humanity Uprooted), Playwright-Director Em Jo Basshe (Earth), Author Walter Stanley Campbell (pseudonym Stanley Vestal), Poets Hart Crane and Genevieve Taggard, Painters Marsden Hartley and Ione Robinson, Sculptor Harold Cash (his second grant), Penologist Joseph Fulling Fishman, Composer Henry Dixon Cowell, Architect Cecil Clair Briggs,* Economist Herbert Heaton, Director William Edward Zeuch of Commonwealth College (Mena...