Word: francisco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hands and when, shortly afterward I found that two months before I was born my mother had been accidentally shorn of all her hair by a stupid maid. I cannot remember a time when the cutting of girls' hair did not excite and thrill me. At the San Francisco Exposition in 1915 I joined in the crowds with a safety-razor-blade and destroyed at least two dozen heads of hair, fortunately avoiding arrest although I was almost caught once. Several years later I was an entire Jack-the-Snipper epidemic in Dallas, all by myself...
...COOKE. San Francisco, Calif...
...little licking flame, high up on the wooded slopes of Mount Tamalpais above San Francisco's Golden Gate, one day last week, started eating through timber dried by months of drought. A strong wind whistled to its aid. Soon Mount Tamalpais' long north and east slopes were ablaze...
...David S. Ingalls at Cleveland; Robert R. McCormick, Joseph Medill Patterson, Philip Wrigley, John J. Mitchell at Chicago; William G. McAdoo Jr., Tod Ford Jr., Aldrich M. Peck at Los Angeles; William G. Parrott, Peter B. Kyne, Julliard McDonald, Thomas B. Eastland, Alexander Young, Edward H. Clark at San Francisco...
Southern Crossers Flayed. Two men died this spring hunting to rescue Charles Kingsford-Smith, Charles Ulm and their crew of the Southern Cross "lost" in wild Australia. The flyers, who guided the Southern Cross across the Pacific from San Francisco to Brisbane, Australia last summer (TIME, June 18, 1928), had made a feint to fly from Sydney to London. Last week an Australian committee of inquiry found that they had considered, although not deliberately planned, "losing" themselves for purposes of publicity and money, that they "did not carry an efficient emergency radio set, did not ascertain whether emergency rations were...