Word: ervine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dunkel, 42, plain, heavy-jawed washwoman, a four-time widow. The other was her washwoman friend, Mrs. Evelyn Smith, 46, onetime burlesque dancer, prostitute and wife of a Chinese laundryman. Somehow, between them, they had murdered Mrs. Dunkel's son-in-law, a grocer's clerk named Ervin Lang, who after his wife's death last December was planning to remarry. Mrs. Dunkel promptly confessed that she had offered Mrs. Smith $500 for the job, paid $100 on account...
...Ervin Lang's torso, wrapped in a blanket, was found in a swamp across the Indiana line. Headlines: TORSO MURDER; SWAMP MURDER. The legs, neatly sawed with the trousers, socks and shoes still on, were presently found seven miles away in a trunk. Evelyn Smith and her Chinese husband, Harry Jung, had vanished. For a week yellow men traveling with white women were detained all through the Midwest. The Press billed the crime as an endpoint of miscegenation. Fears were expressed that the "sinister Oriental," Harry Jung, had killed his white wife to make his getaway. This billing...
...Janeiro, onetime Heavyweight Champion Primo Camera, 264 lb., fought Ervin Klausner, 202. In the sixth round, Fisticuffer Klausner begged his opponent to stop hitting him. The referee awarded the decision to Camera...
...shades of a happier, more opulent day hover over the trial of Ervin F. Brown, a member of the defunct Hoover bureaucracy; his naive confessions on the witness stand are of the stuff from which "Of Thee I Sing" was made. Mr. Brown was chief investigator for the Immigration Bureau of the Department of Labor in New York, and he is accused of accepting bribes from a criminal alien who was awaiting deportation. Brown's bribe-taking operations, however, do not compare with his other activities. A generous man, he singled out deserving Republicans for reward; these men were made...
...Ervin, superior salesman, was elected president of Mackintosh-Hemphill Co. The company is 129 years old and one of the most respected in steeldom, constructing plants and mill equipment. One of its presidents put up the first foundry west of the Alleghenies. Another built the first locomotive in that territory. A third made the first chilled rolls in the territory. Others cast great cannon, then biggest in the world, for Perry's fleet in the War of 1812, for the Mexican War, for the Union Army in the Civil War.' When the steel industry began, Mackintosh-Hemphill invented much...