Word: ill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...half-hearted Basques, Santandrians and Asturians remain to defend the city against Franco's 60,000 Moors, Foreign Legionnaires, Italians; 2) successfully over the Cantabrian Mountains, the three Rightist columns can coast down the sloping hills into Santander; 3) no "iron ring" protects the city, only ill-concealed machine-gun nests on the hillsides, a few straggly strands of barbed wire...
Last week dapper little Martin J. ("'Marty") Durkin, known in his gunning heyday as "The Sheik" and now in his twelfth year of a 35-year term in Joliet (Ill.) Penitentiary for killing a Federal agent in Chicago in 1925, was announced as the principal character in the "Gangbusters" weekly dramatization. "They've got no right to use my misfortune to peddle soap," said Lawyer Irving S. Roth for Convict Durkin, eligible for parole in seven more months. Into court at Chicago marched Mr. Roth, seeking an injunction against the broadcast. Surprised, Benton & Bowles quickly dropped Durkin...
...dynamic bachelor of 48 who has been causing U. S. airlines considerable worry ever since he left Pan American in 1931. As general traffic manager for P. A. A., Jim Eaton was largely responsible for that great line's superb traffic system. He left to become president of ill-starred Ludington Air Lines, which tried to operate without a mail contract between New York and Washington, was eventually sold to Eastern. Since then Jim Eaton has been identified with an unsuccessful scheme to start flying boat service between Boston and Manhattan. Now he is vice president of new American...
...Evanston, Ill., Mr. & Mrs. Robert Matthews arrived to visit Mr. & Mrs. Arthur L. Michel. With them they brought their pet lion, King Tuffy. During business hours King Tuffy walks a tightrope. Mr. Matthews stowed King Tuffy in the back yard, but early one morning Tuffy became disquieted and started to roar. Disquieted neighbors, too, started to roar-among them Alderman Hugo Pape. Rhetorically asked he: "What is this, Africa?" Alderman Pape summoned the police, who inspected Tuffy, but decided they had no jurisdiction over lions...
...believed that the 13th win might be a hard one to add to. A believer in astrology, he regarded the approach of Finsler's Comet with apprehension ("Comets and left-handed pitchers don't go well together"). His mother, of whom he was very fond, lay ill in Rodeo, Calif. Four times he had tried to win his 14th game and failed-twice against Chicago, once against Detroit, once against Philadelphia. He had sped by plane to California for a bedside visit, had sped back East to take his turn on the mound...