Word: guys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Escobar promised me $250 a flight," said practical Capt. Barber. "I tags along with him till that guy owes me $6,000 for combat flights and bombing work. Then I skips, and I takes the bus with me. I'll get mine all right. That plane cost Escobar 16 thousand. I've got a couple of prospects right here in town'll give me six thousand...
...from the midwest went a little man used to doing things in a big way - Samuel Insull, public utility pope of Chicago. His operations centred at first in Maine, where securities of his Central Maine Power & Light have become popular legal tender and his henchmen, Walter S. Wyman and Guy P. Gannett, are ruling powers. Mr. Wyman is Water Power. Mr. Gannett, a cousin of Chain-Publisher Frank Gannett of Rochester, Syracuse, Brooklyn, Hartford, Albany, Utica, Elmira, Newburgh-Beacon (N. Y.), Plainfield (N. J.), Ithaca, Olean (N.Y.), Ogdensburg (N. Y.), is Power of the Press. His monthly Comfort reaches...
...story of the star-crossed love of Paolo for his brother's wife has, however, a certain static lustre in the Phillips version, and Miss Cowl is radiant in her picturization of what is, after all, a minor role. Philip Merivale is a simple and direct Paolo and Guy Standing gives to Giovanni all the sinister quality the verse will allow. Katherine Emmet's Lucrezie also is excellent. But it is not easy to imagine anyone becoming excited enough about it all to telephone his favorite ticket speculator...
...Chicago, a gunman last week held up Stenographer Mary Johnson, took her purse, coat, beads, dress. Up rattled a taxi. Disrobed, dismayed, Mary stepped in. Said the chivalric chauffeur: "I'm a stickup guy myself, dearie. See these two automatics? But you've had enough for one night-I'll take you home...
Rockefeller Foundation. The fever has already killed Dr. Adrian Stokes of Guy's Hospital, London. It must kill no more. Yet within a few months it did kill Dr. Noguchi and, a few days later, Dr. William A. Young, his associate. Last week as another associate, Dr. A. Maurice Wakeman, was sailing to Southampton, the fever killed him-the fourth. He was 31, "perhaps the outstanding graduate of the Yale School of Medicine." He was on his way to teach as assistant professor at Southampton...