Word: hale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Dorothy Donovan Thomas Hale, 33, beauteous widow of the late Muralist Gardner Hale, socialite actress who was recently rumored engaged to WPAdministrator Harry Hopkins; after a 16-floor plunge from her apartment; in Manhattan...
Yesterday the Varsity went through what was believed by everybody from Dick Harlow on down to be the best practice session in weeks. With everybody hale and hearty, there seemed to be a new second-half-of-the-season confidence. The forward passing drill was the highlight. Both Frank Foley and Austie Harding floated spirals consistently into the arms of Bob Green, Don Daughters, Torby Macdonald, and Joe Gardelia...
...fashions, glistening coiffures. J. C. Penney Co. supplied its pickets with comfortable, low-heeled shoes. But by week's end, the new style strike had produced a crop of arrests, some old-style violence. Most notable: Picket Lulu Darling, somewhat mauled in a scuffle in front of Hale Bros., complained to police about the store owner's athletic young nephew, Prentis Cobb Hale, Jr., who swore in turn he had not hit the lady...
Valley of the Giants surrounds its heroic theme with robust climaxes as huge, numerous, tightly packed and ancient as the rings on a redwood stump. They include a free-for-all fight wherein a redheaded lumberjack named Ox (Alan Hale) demolishes a barroom singlehanded; a wrestle to the death between Bickford and Morris on the edge of a precipice; a train wreck from which hero rescues heroine by a margin narrow enough to make nervous cinemaddicts avert their eyes; a dynamite explosion, an exhibition of fly-casting, a minor log jam and a conflagration. All this action takes place...
Angler Stanley's tackle was adequate (14-0 reel, 36-thread line) but the Mongoose's cockpit afforded him no proper foot rest to fight so big a fish. His friend, William Hale Harkness, had to spell him on the rod. Evening was at hand before they had their monster subdued-and then it sounded (dived deep). They began the laborious job of "pumping" the dying fish to the top, when violent thrashing on their line and clouds of blood deep in the water told them that something else was after their fish-sharks! By the time they...