Word: gate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nine days last fortnight a "birth watch" of newshawks and cameramen camped outside the gates of the Morrow estate at Englewood, N. J., waiting to flash the news of the advent of Anne Morrow Lindbergh's second child. One day Mrs. Dwight Morrow and Mrs. Lindbergh were seen to leave the estate in Mrs. Morrow's Cadillac. A Hearst newshawk chased them to a Hudson River ferry. Just as the Morrow car rolled onto the boat, alert attendants slammed a gate in front of the newshawk's car. The birth-watchers telephoned their city desks that evidently...
...trumpeters on a turret above the stadium blew a loud salute. Outside the stadium, a field gun went off ten times. From an urn over the main gate of the stadium there was a burst of flame, pale in the bright afternoon, from the Olympic torch that will burn for 16 days...
...deem it inexpedient to encourage her with her writing. His protegee's subsequent literary career has given him cause to turn proudly in his grave. Long a successful journalist (London Daily News, Daily Telegraph, Manchester Guardian), Authoress Harris won a $5,000 prize with her first novel, The Seventh Gate. Her second novel may popularize a writer who is apparently Katherine Mansfield's nearest living literary relative. Her book, written in an extraordinarily vivid style, too pointed for extended novel-writing, is a sequence of short story-like sketches. These episodes are telescoped into homogeneity by the accidents...
...gate is far too small to let all through at once. Those who could not get in fell to the ground. Men piled upon men, bulls leaped over a human wall and charged snorting into the ring. There they found men waving coats, shirts, rags-anything that remotely resembled a matador's cape. The bulls charged here &; there. Sometimes a novice held his bull's attention, executed several passes. Sometimes he went down with a horn wound...
Unlike Runners Venzke and McCluskey, Ben Eastman never had occasion to trot about his business. His father is president of Southern Pacific-Golden Gate Ferries Co. and Spring Valley Land Co. At Stanford, where his brother Samuel Palmer Eastman Jr. is also on the track team, Ben Eastman majors in economics, plans to go to Stanford's graduate school of business. He belongs to Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity, an organization called Skull & Snakes, and the Board of Athletic Control. In May he was elected Captain of the track team. He has no special training methods. He eats what...