Word: guessing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these parts except for three months a year. The removal of clothing annoys the police, and the "Douks" are wise enough to know this. Many people in the vicinity think the best means of combating the tendency to disrobe would be to ignore it. This, as you may guess, takes nonchalance...
...college shows with him. In particular do I recall his appearance with Charles Carpenter in a Union Vodvil sketch in 1920 called, "Carpenter & Bickel, the Gloom Picklers" and in 1919 in an act with "Chuck" Carpenter in which they termed themselves, "Assassins of Sorrow." From the titles you can guess that they were comedians. Through all of these performances the thing that I remember distinctly is the extreme nervousness and stage fright of Fredric Bickel. Back stage before, during, and after each performance Fredric drank copious draughts of ice water and during dress rehearsal required considerable prompting from his partner...
Secretary Ickes is a short, paunchy man with thin grey hair and a mouth that twists up into strange shapes. Behind his gruff manner lies dry humor. He likes to call himself a "lone wolf" in politics. Few regular politicians of either party can guess which way Lone Wolf Ickes will jump next. Anna Wilmarth Thompson Ickes, his wife, whose inheritance is sufficient to leave them both free for politics, is now serving her third term as a regular Republican in the Illinois Legislature. The Insull debacle has been the latest and largest Ickes target...
...second day, after passing Nigeria, the robot pilot quit, leaving the human pilots to guess their way through rain squalls and the second night...
...mile west of the airport, 800 ft. aloft, the big ship went into a spin, crashed into a grove of trees. Engineer, assistant, test-pilot, all were killed. To their graves they took the secret of the crash. Best guess: sudden shifting of the bags of lead ballast...