Word: erful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stockholder and director of Missouri-Kansas. Several "victims" of the Missouri-Kansas crash testified that they had bought the stock because salesmen told them the du Pont companies were backing Missouri-Kansas. Director du Pont emphatically declared that his dealings with Missouri-Kansas were entirely personal, that no oth er member of the family and no du Pont company was interested. There, said the prosecutor. Was that not clear proof that Frank Parish's salesmen had misrepresented the stock they sold...
...know that Rasputin's daughter is on the boat?" asked a newshawk. Mr. Wells did not, wished he had. Off to the lounge scurried the newshawks to tell Maria Gregorievna Rasputin Solovief of the great man's disappointment. Said she, in German: "I am so sorry ... er ... who is he?" The daughter of Russia's "Mad Monk" Gregory Rasputin was on her way to Peru, Ind., to ride bareback, train lions and tigers for the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus. For nine years Trainer Rasputin has been traveling with European circuses. Imprisoned during the Revolution, she escaped, fled from...
...loving Britons favored Scotland Yard with letters of advice and suggestion, but none contained anything really worth while. Plodding police work proved the No. 2 corpse to be that of 42-year-old Dancer Violette Kaye who had been living with a 26-year-old wavy-haired ne'er-do-well Toni Mancini, "The Dancing Waiter." He was indicted for her murder, tried, acquitted...
...Russia, Andrew had contracted a bad case of insomnia, daily headaches that nearly drove him crazy. A doctor told him his days were numbered, so he spent his last energy trying to find Greta again. In a little Baltic town he found her, the night ne'er-do-well Sandy was conveniently murdered...
...their paragraph on the speech of England's Best People. Authors Douglas & LeCocq disclose some of the secrets of its complex simplicity, consisting of " 'um's, 'aw's, and 'er's, the meanings of which vary according to the context. 'Um' may mean 'These are good tripe and onions.' 'You smell like a rose,' or 'Waiter, another whisky and soda.' This sort of thing makes it difficult for the foreigner, but the English themselves can tell instantly what is meant by the lack of inflection...