Word: guess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just before midnight one evening last week, two young men walked into Manhattan's National Republican Club, asked the clerk on duty for a Mr. Brown. They were informed that there was no such person in the club. "Well," drawled one of the young men, "I guess you can give us what we want." What they wanted was the contents of the club's cash drawer. They got it, $196 of Republican money. Happily for the club, of which President Hoover is a member, a taxicab driver saw the robbers hastily enter another cab, grew suspicious, summoned policemen...
...fight of the convention. Governor Roosevelt did not have a clear two-thirds. Whether he could muster it or not was a question more confused every hour. The forces of Smith & the Favorite Sons took fresh heart for if Roosevelt could be stopped, the nominee would be anybody's guess...
Obviously the presidency of our country is rated first but who may be classed as second? My guess is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court but maybe I'm wrong...
...throat. The python coils around the tiger's middle. The tiger shakes himself loose and goes to get a drink of water. Finally Frank Buck captures both, the python by hauling him into a cage, the tiger by building a box-trap out of logs. Alert cinemaddicts will guess that actually the tiger and the python were both captured before their fight, recaptured later for the camera...
...Wernigerode, Germany, some hundred skeptical psychic researchers climbed to the top of Mt. Brocken at night, smeared a goat with blood, honey and the scrapings of church bells, incanted the Latin Abracadabra. Urta Bohn, selected as being "a maiden pure in heart," officiated. Said Fraulein Bohn: "I guess I am as well qualified as any girl nowadays." The experiment, to discredit an old superstition by failing to change the goat into a young man, was successful. Next day Maiden Bohn was in bed with a severe cold...