Word: ens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Quick. Suddenly the screech of brakes was heard far up the hill. One Hedley V. Quick, an employe of the Anglo-American Bank of Mexico City, was slithering down the grade, en route to Cuernavaca. So steep is the hill that Mr. Quick could not stop when commanded to halt by the bandits. Two shots ripped through his side curtains. Then, resourceful, Mr. Quick took his foot from the brake, plunged it down upon the gas. His car, bounding, lurching, sped down the hill. Half a mile farther on he met First-Secretary Arthur Bliss Lane...
...baseball cage is to be located 40 feet west of Caretaker Dennis En-right's home, and stands on the four eastern tennis courts, just inside the corner gate of the Soldiers Field inclosure. The old cage, built more than 30 years ago, had long outlived its usefulness, and the new cage will be 160 feet square, large enough for even modified outfield practice. Outside the structure will be of gray stucco, to match the Stadium...
French editors grew indignant en masse last week at the scandalous attitude of Turkey in retaining under arrest in Constantinople one Lieutenant Demons, chief officer of the French steamer Lotus, which collided with a Turkish coalship on the high seas (TIME, Sept...
...hunter, in 1912. (The Duke of Mecklinburg shot a specimen 20 ft. long.) Mr. Burden organized an expedition, including Mrs. Burden, Professor E. R. Dunn of Smith College and one de Fosse, French huntsman. They reached Komodo last June via China. The British flyer, Alan Cobham, stopped at Komodo en route from England to Australia (TIME, Aug. 16 et seq.) and, finding the Burdens there, took them on a reconnaissance flight over the island's jungled, mountainous interior. Sighting the quarry from the air, the Burdens fetched their comrades to the spot, taking along bear-traps, stout cages, rifles...
This summer he campaigned again for a return triumphant, en revanche, on no particular issue save that he would very much like to be elected in place of present able Senator Ellison D. ("Cotton") Smith, who naturally desires to retain his seat. Speaker Edgar A. Brown of the South Carolina House of Representatives likewise...