Word: inded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Straws for the Camel. In Asbury Park, N.J., two 14-year-olds said they had thrown some stolen money into a lake, let the police drain the lake to look for it, then led them to where it really was-on the bridge overhead. In Terre Haute, Ind., the young man who held up Detective C. D. Thompson and ran away with his trousers brightly explained: "This old head of mine just tells me to do things sometimes, and I do them...
Direct Credits. The man who discovered all this, Alfred William Lawson, was born in England, attended no colleges, pitched for the Goshen, Ind. ball club in 1888. His Philadelphia Fly (1909) was the first popular aeronautical magazine. He later manufactured planes in Green Bay, Wis. designed and built a 26-passenger plane, made a pioneering profit flying it around the U.S. In 1920 he got the first U.S. airmail contract. A year later a Lawson plane crashed and the Lawson plane company followed suit...
...mild-mannered, mildly good-looking, nonsmoking, teetotaling gentleman of medium size, whose most distinctive feature is a pair of startlingly blue eyes. He is a friendly family man with a bustling, buxom wife, five sons-all in uniform today-and two daughters. He works in South Bend, Ind. and spends his meager spare time at home-in the winter in a "mildly exclusive" part of South Bend; in the summer at unpretentious Lakeside, on Lake Michigan...
...month Harvard students are broke, 39 is a mystic Hindu number (like Ali Babs and the Forty Thieves, of which one was just poor but honest)., and the average allowance of students in Indic Philology 39b is 39 dollars (amazing coincidence you think?). Now who takes Ind. Phil. 39b. a snap course, why that great group of takers of snap courses, the Lampoon. There we have it. Last day, 39 dollars, Ind. Phil. 39b. 'Poon. It's plain as day. THE 'POON DID IT. That's all right, folks, don't applaud. It was elementary...
...woman began to weep. "Her name is Miss Rooney," said a friend. "She always cries." And whenever she cried a woman from South Bend, Ind., invariably followed. Soon scores of weepers had been touched off, were brusquely ordered to restrain themselves until a more critical moment. Once, at dinner, "Mrs. Dilling suddenly started to sing a mildly ribald song about a young lady and her fiance. Later she stuck her thumb into the air, 'snatched' at [it] with her left hand and made it 'disappear.' She laughed hysterically while she pinched her left...