Word: handedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Russia's Empress Catherine I ("Katinka"). not to be confused with Catherine II ("The Great"), got her start as a common soldier's wench who was handed up to a crack Swedish dragoon, to a marshal, to a prince and finally to Peter the Great, whose death left...
To mitigate his disappointment at the failure of contract bridge as a profitable public spectacle, Promoter Jacobs last week had only the left-handed satisfaction of realizing that it was the less disastrous of two unhappy experiments which he had attempted simultaneously. Few hours before the Bridge Match ended. Promoter...
First five to show its skill was Purdue. Breaking fast and shooting with sure accuracy, it piled up a lead of nine points in two minutes as snippy Coach Ward ("Piggy") Lambert smiled on the bench, confident that his scouting in Manhattan the week before had uncovered N. Y. U...
Known variously and vaguely as "The Richest Man in the World," "The Armaments King," "The Mystery Man of Europe," Sir Basil Zaharoff, Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire and of the Order of the Bath, Doctor of Laws, Oxford, Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor, etc...
Not "the amorous buffoon and gossip" of the Diaries, but a busy little executive, years ahead of his easy-going times, appears from Author Bryant's pages. At 36 Pepys may have felt that the death of his wife, "poor wretch," had closed the most important chapter in his...