Word: harvey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hawley Harvey Crippen, a London dentist, was hanged (1910) for poisoning his wife, chopping up her remains and burying them in his cellar. Henri Desire (Bluebeard) Landru was guillotined (1922) in Versailles, France, for butchering ten women...
...Test. In Los Angeles, police were looking for the stranger who snatched off Harvey Bornstein's glasses, made his victim count the number of fingers he held up, then snapped the glasses in two and walked away with the remark: "You don't need glasses...
Caplin & Squid. The newly formed Sight-Seeing Tours Co. runs trips to Newfoundland's characteristic fishing villages -clusters of houses and sheds clinging to sheer cliffs. Harvey & Co. Ltd. has a tour that takes in coves where, in summer, shoals of the glistening caplin strike, and where dorymen with multi-hooked jiggers catch squid for bait for the Grand Banks fishing fleet. At tour's end, 40 miles from St. John's, is trim little Cupids, the beauty spot picked by John Guy in 1610 for the first permanent colony...
...quite a bathtub, replied RFC Director Harvey J. Gunderson. The first blue and yellow Lustron houses were "a little like hotdog stands." But the newer grey and green houses, he thought, were a great improvement...
...freshmen, nothing short of a torpedo can stop them from winning. Coach Harvey Love has developed the best yearling boat in many a season. In fact, they are good enough to have defeated their own varsity in time trials, something unprecedented in rowing circles...