Word: ft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...First question reporters asked John Aspinwall Roosevelt, youngest (21), one of the tallest (6 ft. 4 in.), and only unmarried son of the President when he got back from Europe last week was what had actually happened at the Cannes carnival last month when someone who looked exactly like him doused the mayor of Cannes with champagne. Said John Roosevelt: "I haven't found out yet who it was. . . . I'll be awfully glad to see the Old Man. ... By the way, where...
...minutes after 3 a.m. by a newsboy who had noticed a pile of straw burning in a corral, firemen raced to the scene, found flames licking at a barn belonging to the Myron Jacobs Riding Academy, where swank Boiseans stable their horses. The Riding Academy is 25 ft. outside Boise's city limits. A city ordinance forbids the fire department to fight fires outside Boise, and firemen injured doing so get no compensation. Boise's firemen last week promptly decided to take no chances. Instead of trying to put the little fire out, they sat down to watch...
...give the sinewy Pole a third trouncing by pounding her slow backhand, catching her flat-footed with deft drop-shots, 6-4, 6-2. Then, after being photographed with her first U. S. championship cup, first won by a foreigner since Betty Nuthall did it in 1930, little (5 ft.) Champion Lizana swooned away...
Since the first year contestants for the Hague Cup have been obliged to use regulation-size boats, with a minimum length of 25 ft. 11 in., minimum weight including crew and ballast of 5,500 lb. Publicity-conscious shipping lines have taken to building special boats for the race, selecting crews by competition, giving them a month off work to train. Only contestants last week were the crews of Standard Oil Co. of N. J.'s W. C. Teagle and the Italian Line's Conte di Savoia, each of which had two legs...
Into the ramshackle office of Banker George S. Nixon in tiny Winnemucca, Nev. around the turn of the century stalked a 6-ft. cowboy named George Wingfield. Not yet 21, Buckaroo Wingfield had just arrived from Arkansas via Oregon, had not a penny. He tossed a diamond ring on the desk, asked for a loan. "I'm not running a hock-shop!" snapped...