Word: heartly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stern. Largest and swankest was the Rex, an old, British-built square-rigger, formerly the collier Kenilworth. She was demasted, equipped with a 400-foot saloon on her main deck containing roulette wheels, crap boards, tables for chemin de fer, chuck-a-luck, anything else a gambler's heart might crave. Below were elegant dining rooms, bars, long rows of slot machines...
...British mission left London, Old Plunk was gay. He wore in his buttonhole-"for optimism"-a red carnation and a wee sprig of heather. Less light-hearted was Lieut. Baskervyle Glegg, whose job it was to take care of such military secrets as have so far escaped espionage. Lieutenant Glegg toted his responsibility in a steel dispatch case fastened to his wrist by a three-foot chain. Lieutenant Glegg was heavy of heart because he was, handcuffed to the future of Europe...
Died. Royal Cleaves Johnson, 56, longtime (1915-33) Republican Representative from South Dakota; of a heart attack, in Washington, D. C. In 1917 he voted against U. S. entrance into the World War, then left Congress to enlist as a private, in France won promotion to a first-lieutenancy, a wound stripe and the Distinguished Service Cross...
...last week the California Supreme Court handed down a decision that should have been not only big news for San Francisco and Oakland newspapers but a story to warm the cockles of any good reporter's heart. The San Francisco Chronicle reported the decision, passed up the story behind it. No other local paper even mentioned it, nor did any press service carry a line on its wire. The story...
...from the flaccid tissue of Karinthy's cerebellum, the poet lost consciousness. Three weeks later, after an uneventful convalescence, happy Poet Karinthy went back to his Budapest cafés, heard no more nonexistent locomotives. But two-and-a-half years after his ordeal he died of a heart attack...