Word: inde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most important early illustrated book ever sold at auction"-Boccaccio's De La Ruine des Nobles hommes et femmes. Translated by Pierre Faivre, it was the first dated book (1476) with copperplate illustrations. Disposal of the Boccaccio was complicated by the competition of an anonymous collector in Muncie, Ind., whose bids, up to $40,000, were made by long distance telephone and read to the gallery by a Negro page...
Because his full name would not fit in a column of the Lafayette (Ind.) Journal when he was given his first by-line nearly 15 years ago, Stephen Jerome Hannagan became "Steve" Hannagan. Today "Steve" Hannagan is a name known in practically every important newspaper office in the U. S. and most of the better barrooms...
...tiger. As he went down, an African lion named Nero leaped upon the tiger, knocked it across the cage. After that Nero was Trainer Beatty's favorite beast, was the tamest in the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus. Last fortnight Animal Man Beatty was rehearsing his act at Peru, Ind. He cracked his whip over Nero's head. Nero snarled, crouched, sprang. As Trainer Beatty went down sharp teeth tore through the flesh of his leg. Assistants rushed into the cage, whipped the lion away, carried Trainer Beatty off to a hospital...
...Author. Newton Booth Tarkington (no A. B., but honorary A. M. Princeton, 1899; Litt.D. Princeton, 1918; Litt.D. De Pauw, 1923; Litt.D. Columbia, 1924) was born in Indianapolis, Ind. in 1869, owes much to Middle Western authors William Dean Howells. Mark Twain. As a boy he had St. Vitus-like nervous disorders; improved, went to college at Princeton. He returned to live in Indiana, started out as an illustrator. Failing at that he wrote for eight years: his gross returns were $22.50. The Gentleman from Indiana (1899) gave him his start. Penrod (1914) kept him going strong...
...shrewd, able correspondent of the New York Evening Post. Their belief in his identity was strengthened when earlier this month he used almost identically the same story in a despatch, to his newspaper. Governor Roosevelt was circumstantially placed at last year's Governors' Conference at French Lick, Ind., and in conversation with "a distinguished Middle Western Democrat" (generally supposed to be James Middleton Cox) saying...