Word: guess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sept. 10 the San Francisco Chronicle burst out with a streaming black headline: LAMSON WINS NEW TRIAL. It would be hard to guess who was most astonished: Hearst's San Francisco Examiner which apparently had been badly scooped or Chief Justice William Harrison Waste of the California Supreme Court or David A. Lamson, sitting in his death cell at San Quentin Prison. Last year a San Jose jury had found the young Stanford University Press salesmanager guilty of murder after it refused to believe his story that his wife Allene had slipped in the bathtub and fatally fractured...
Died. Franklin Simon, 69, founder of Franklin Simon & Co. big Manhattan department store; of uremic poisoning; in Purchase, N. Y. He was one of the first Manhattan merchants to guess that Fifth Avenue above 34th street would be a fashionable shopping district, to offer Paris styles at comparatively low prices. Said the New York Times: "One thought . . . forces itself to the front of the mind in surveying the rise of a business like that built by Mr. Simon. It would have been impossible if he had been hampered at every step by government regulation and meddlesomeness. What need of imposing...
...without breakfast. Headwinds, rain and fog cut his speed to 212 m. p. h., brought him to Cleveland an hour behind the course record but in plenty of time to win the $4,500 first prize and receive the Bendix Trophy from Cinemactress Mary Pickford. Said he, grinning: "I guess I'll be able...
...DeMillery (Cleopatra), often works in two or more pictures simultaneously. Married, he lives in a small house in Hollywood. His grandfather was a spiritualist, his father a country publisher. He studies navigation, owns and sails a schooner named Pegasus. Embarrassed by autograph seekers, he says: "If they guess who I am, I sign. If they guess someone else, I don't. Who do they think I am? Well, I'll just let you guess that...
...nation's exchanges are not overvalued, 5) when the market has reacted from the recent highs by the normal amount for the normal period and 6) when the Government has declared to raise prices, and has unlimited powers to do so." Date of the coming rise: "At a guess . . . before the end of the summer...