Word: guys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time of this writing there's a great array of fireworks and much merry-making over most of England. It's Guy Fawkes night. Fawkes you remember was the hapless man who in 1605 tried to blow up Parliament. I'm not sure whether this celebration is an expression of a democracy's gratitude for the failure; or whether the British people are trying to make up for the disappointment by a second-best array of fireworks. Judging by the noise the latter seems the logical solution. One young Englishman asked me if our Fourth of July was a celebration...
...Kansas, was Walter A. Huxman, Democrat, who to every one's surprise beat out Will G. West for Governor. The tale told in Kansas: no prominent Democrat wanted the thankless job of running against Will West. Finally Secretary of War Harry Woodring and Commissioner of Internal Revenue Guy Helvering, Kansans both, appealed to Huxman, a second-string politician, to make the race. They promised the campaign would cost him nothing, that afterward he would be given a job in Washington with a better salary than the $5,000 a year earned by the Governor of Kansas. On election night...
...guy" was Captain James A. Mollison, Britain's No. 1 flyer, off on his fourth transatlantic flight. To explain his costume he smirked: "I don't want to lose any time getting to a party once I land at Croydon." Of late, Captain Mollison and his famed flying wife, Amy Johnson Mollison, have been noted more for the frequency of their parties than for the brilliance of their flying. Fortnight ago Amy made a bad landing in Kent, buried her plane's nose in the ground, broke her own nose on the dashboard. Mortified, she took...
Died. Mack Garner, 36, one of four famed jockey brothers (others: Guy, Lambert, Wayne ["Skeets"]), rider of the 1934 Kentucky Derby winner Cavalcade; of a heart attack, after riding in four races and bringing in one winner at River Downs (formerly Coney Island) ; in Covington, Ky. In 22 years he rode more than 2,000 winners, earned $2,425,320 for the owners of his mounts...
...Kling, 28-year-old Cedar Rapids seed & coal dealer, stuttered on arrival: "For 30? I'd turn around and go back home. I wouldn't feel this way if I knew what to expect. . . . Why, I only had one date when I was in high school." Bachelor Guy Bassilli from Cairo, Egypt, did not talk for publication. Cleveland's Guy Baker, less shy, demanded on alighting from his transcontinental plane: "Where's Mae? Why isn't she here to meet me?" Cinemactress West was ill with influenza, recovered sufficiently to receive her guests...