Word: heartly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...school at Madisonville, Ohio, Clarence DeMar found it more pleasant to dogtrot than to walk. He has been dogtrotting ever since. In 1911, when he was 23, he entered the 26-mi. Boston Marathon in which he had finished second the year before. A doctor listened to his heart, told him to drop out if he got tired, advised him to give up running afterward. Clarence DeMar won the race in record time. No one else has ever won the Boston Marathon more than twice. DeMar won it seven times, most recently in 1930. In 66 marathons, including three...
...Schwab be kicked upstairs into an "honorary chairmanship" with a $25,000 annual pension. Mr. Schwab, said Stockholder Gilbert, had outlived his usefulness. Loudly seconded was this thought by Leopold B. Coshland, a stockholder who once complained that Bethlehem was closer to Mr. Schwab's stomach than his heart...
...have their foibles but none worth getting really sore about. They need a scolding now & then, but what they need oftenest is a pat on the back, maybe some kidding. In his warm but unmaudlin obituaries, Editor White shows the full measure of their place in his half-Irish heart. Even outside Emporia, where all the worst sinners live, he can always find some good word to say for the dead. Only once in 42 years has a man died in the U. S. about whom he could not be generous. That was Publisher Frank Munsey, whose obituary stated briefly...
...Thursday something happened that changed our whole outlook toward the Harvard teaching corps, and we realized for the first time that the heart of the teaching staff is in the right place after all. For walking through the corridors of one of the Houses, we came upon a notice tacked to the door of the office, a tutor's notice that filled us with the peace that passes understanding almost...
...heels, Erna seduces Colleret, an adjutant in the French Secret Service and is confirmed in her suspicions of Benoit. Unwittingly she falls in love with her prey only to find she has betrayed him to the German office. After heart-rending scenes in which both women vio to save their lover from tragedy, Benoit escapes the death trap. Erna is slain by her Prussian affiliate when captured, but Benoit and the post-mistress join hands unscathed...