Word: hammer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...high in both hurdle races and in the 100, since he took three first places in the winter meet with Andover, N. P. Dodge '33, who won the 440 two consecutive years in the Harvard Inter-scholastics is expected to snatch a first in this race tomorrow. In the hammer throw Alfred Kidder 2nd '33, star weight thrower for Andover last year, is expected to garner a first place
Coach Farrell has named P. N. Vonckx 31 to compete in the hammer throw and W. C. Rowe '31 in the broad jump. Vonckx pulled a surprise in the indoor competition this season by winning the weight throw in the H-D-C triangular meet, and Rowe has performed consistently well all season in his event...
...door opening on nothing last week involved John Pierpont Morgan in a record damage suit in Manhattan. A hammer dropping from loose fingers last week involved Andrew William Mellon in a record damage suit in Pittsburgh. Observers wondered whether damage suits are not greatly conditioned by the fame and fortune of the defendants...
...year ago a carpenter at work on the Pittsburgher Hotel, owned by Secretary of the Treasury Mellon and his brother Richard Beatty Mellon, dropped a hammer. It fell through a large plate-glass window in the Frick Building next door. Flying glass cut a 23-inch gash, severed a vertebra, in the back of Mary Hahn, 23, cigar vendor. Last week, after the Mellon lawyers had admitted liability, an Allegheny county jury awarded Miss Hahn $102,427 in damages. The Mellons, through counsel, protested the verdict was excessive, appealed for a new trial...
...artist for the Buffalo Natural History Museum, had walked Nancy Bowen, 66-year-old Cayuga Indian from the nearby Cattaraugus Reservation. She had confronted Mrs. Marchand, small, slight, with a question: "Are you a witch?" Jestingly Mrs. Marchand replied: "Yes." Thereupon Nancy Bowen beat her down with a 10? hammer, stuffed chloroform-soaked paper down her throat, left her dead...