Word: fours
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...later spent three years and four months in Sing Sing for embezzlement while president of the Stock Exchange...
...Groucho, 54, has been married to second wife Kay Dittig, 27, for four years...
Waksman first thought of studying medicine, but Russia was not the place for him to do that. With four friends from Priluka, he decided to try his luck in the U.S. The young Ukrainians landed at Philadelphia in November 1910, and Waksman went to stay with a cousin, Molki Kornblatt, and her husband Mendel, on their five-acre farm in Metuchen, N. J. He weeded the vegetable garden, fed the chickens and dug pestholes, while the Kornblatts' children helped him improve his English. Kornblatt gave him some advice which proved decisive: go to see Dr. Jacob Lipman, another Russian...
Graves's tale (based on historical fact) tells how vapid General Mendaña y Castro set sail from Callao, Peru with four ships to take possession of the dimly known Solomons and to convert the heathen -mostly into cash. But the heart of the book, like that of any pirate story, is Graves's evocation of the murderous plotting and quarreling that enlivened the long and miserable voyage: its sailors, soldiers, settlers and missionaries fall on one another (and on the hapless islanders) with a ferocity inspired equally by high zeal and abysmal greed...
...Great-grandson of the agency's famed founder, Allan Pinkerton. After detectives wounded his mother and killed his stepbrother, Jesse James stalked the senior Pinkerton for four months on the streets of Chicago, never brought himself to shoot...