Word: hooded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fleeing outlaws. Tires shrieked as the Ford swerved into a side road. The Federal car screeched and skidded about 100 ft. down the highway before Agent Hollis could bring it to a stop. By that time Nelson's woman had leaped out into a ditch. Screened by their engine hood, Nelson and his male companion were pumping machine gun bullets at the Federal men. From behind their own automobile the agents opened fire, Cowley with a machine gun, Hollis with an automatic shotgun. Each one had emptied his gun before he fell, riddled with bullets. The outlaws ceased firing...
...YEARS IN THE WHITE HOUSE-Irwin Hood ("Ike") Hoover-Houghton Mifflm ($3.50). The ex-Chief Usher of the White House tells all. Scrappy but good reading...
Look over the next in the series. In all eighty-seven authors are represented, with New England leading. But Dickens and Thackeray, Charles Kingsley and Jean Ingelow, Tennyson, even the London Times, are in the list. Whittler tells about "the fish I didn't catch," and Tom Hood about "faithless Nelly Grey...
...your issue of Aug. 27 you pay a well deserved tribute to Raymond M. Hood. I knew him very well. He was a lovable companion and a splendid man to work with, and were he here today he would be the first to take up his pen to correct a grave injustice which you have done to his associate, John Mead Howells...
While it is true that Hood made the original design for the Tribune Tower, Howells rendered invaluable service in connection with the project. It is not true that the design was submitted from the office of John Mead Howells. The design was submitted in the name of John Mead Howells and Raymond M. Hood, associate architects. It is not true that Hood had to turn over $40,000 of the prize money to Howells. The arrangement was for an equal division...