Word: georgetown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opponents have never seared him, however. When he coached at Georgetown during the '20's, it was Little's custom to take 180-pounders and whip them into teams that could take on the nation's best. During his six years at Georgetown, Little's squad lost but five games, and beat such outstanding outfits as the NYU squad that featured Ken Strong...
...West Virginia state police reopened the Porter case, at the countess' request, and the courts were asked to seize Porter's records. Meanwhile Washington had another death to gossip about. Elizabeth Kenney Hynes, 50-year-old society editor of the Times-Herald, was found dead in her Georgetown home. Detectives found a bottle of sleeping tablets nearby, and her brother told the Washington Post that she had been despondent because Cissie Patterson had not kept a promise to "clear the mortgage" on her house. A preliminary autopsy report showed, however, that she died of a heart attack...
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...investigator for the Nye Committee (which investigated the munitions industry during 1934 and 1935). Crosley had asked for help and material in preparing a series of articles. The next summer, Hiss went on, he had sublet his apartment to Crosley, since he had already moved into a house on Georgetown's P Street. Because Crosley also needed a car, said Hiss, he made his old Ford a part of the deal...
...added a few details of his experience with Crosley. When Crosley, his wife and baby were ready to move into the Hiss apartment, their furniture had not yet arrived. As a result, said Hiss, he invited the Crosleys to spend "two, or three or four consecutive nights" in his Georgetown house...