Word: harvey
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Fame first came to Sir Bernard through the infamous Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen. In 1910, Dr. Crippen poisoned his wife, buried her in quicklime in the basement and ran off with his typist. Before Scotland Yard was sure that a murder had been committed, Spils and his microscope identified something found in the basement as a bit of human skin with an appendectomy scar. Ships at sea were alerted and Dr. Crippen, despite his disguise, was nabbed in the St. Lawrence before his ship landed...
...plateaus of the Wasatch Range while tending sheep. . . . One passage sort of expresses the old-timers who spit tobacco into brass spittoons. . . ." But Trilogy had little picture painting about it: it was a well-knit if not wonderful symphony, with occasional ear-splitting eruptions of brass. Commented Detroit Critic Harvey Taylor: "Those 25 Gs could have fallen into much, much less able hands...
...William S. Paley, millionaire president of Columbia Broadcasting Co., by his marriage to Registerite Barbara Gushing Mortimer, one of the three beautiful daughters of Boston's late great surgeon, Harvey Gushing...
...Harvey Thayer, Bill Goldberg, Dave Gilbert and Dave Hamblett formed the varsity A quartet...
...Eddie Rickenbacker, Procter & Gamble Co.'s Richard R. Deupree, Sam Goldwyn and Radio Corp. of America's David Sarnoff -fitted the rags-to-riches pattern set by some of 1917's tycoons. And some of the leaders still had the old empire-building names-Harvey S. Firestone Jr., Henry Ford II and Nelson Rockefeller...