Word: franked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kelly never baited William Green. He has always been courteous, frank and fair?both in his questions and in his reports of interviews. Surely you would not regard fair, frank, courteous, intelligent inquiries as "baiting." Yet you publish a story which places a fine, highly qualified news writer, who submits intelligent questions, as a "baiter...
Henry Cotton has the clothes and polish of a Mayfair blade, the build and complexion of a matador. Most serious of British professionals, he is nervous and temperamental. He offends associates by his indifference to P. G. A. edicts and his frank money-making zeal. On the course he is apt to tear up his card when his game slips, explode over camera clicks and yelping dogs. Slightly stoop-shouldered, he flouts form by bending his left arm at the start of his stroke. Otherwise, as last week's victory suggested, his style is as studied as his temper...
...Answer to the second will depend on whether or not he avoids being extradited to New York. Day after his arrest last week, Montague was out on $10,000 bail, with Cinemactors Hardy, Crosby and Guy Kibbee named as references on his bond. His attorney, Jerry Giesler, asked Governor Frank F. Merriam for a hearing which was scheduled for July...
...Jacques Armand Schuel of Alsatian parents in San Francisco, Jack Curley changed his name when he ran away from home to become a reporter, mechanic, waiter, trainer to Barney Oldfield, then a famed bicycle rider. In 1899 he promoted his first major sports event, a Chicago wrestling match between Frank Gotch and George Hackenschmidt. Subsequently he promoted the famed Havana prizefight between Jack Johnson and Jess Willard, bullfights, Annette Kellerman, Mrs. Pankhurst, Rudolph Valentino, Georges Carpentier, William Jennings Bryan, William T. Tilden II, dance marathons, a flea circus and the U.S. tour of the Vatican Choir. In 1929 Promoter Curley...
...Kans. Her father was a lawyer and railway claim agent. She went east to study at Columbia University, then west to be with her parents, who had moved to Los Angeles. In California. Amelia saw many more airplanes than in Kansas. The idea of flying excited her. Famed Captain Frank Hawks took her up for her first flight. In 1918 she made her first solo, after ten hours of instruction. Two years later she set a woman's altitude record...