Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jersey Life. In Jersey City, Mrs. Michael Fitzgerald locked up her fifth-floor apartment before going to bed, left her husband in the kitchen with a bottle. She woke later to a pounding on the door, found it was Mike. Said he: "Fell out of the kitchen window." He explained that he had encountered cradling clotheslines at the fourth, third, and second stories, and concluded: "Never missed...
...Bahamians were not so pleased, as might have been expected. The Duke asked them about the weather; they shook their heads. The New Jersey spring was too chilly . . . most of them had caught colds . . . the climate did not compare with that of the Bahamas. Then what about the food? The Bahamians shook their heads again, sadly. The Duke explained to the camp manager: "You see, they're used to eating peas and rice covered with pork fat. It's a horrible mess, really, but they like...
...competition for the Temple's design was won by the late New Jersey architect Louis Bourgeois, a Bahá'i believer. Bourgeois took ship to the Holy Land, showed Abdu'l-Bahá his drawings. Abdu'l-Bahá approved and set the building's cost at $1,000,000 (cost to date...
Married. Lady Sarah Consuelo Spencer-Churchill, 21, eldest daughter of the Duke of Marlborough, great-granddaughter of the late William K. Vanderbilt, first cousin (twice-removed) of the Prime Minister; and U.S. Naval Lieut. Edwin Russell, peacetime New Jersey newspaper publisher (and no kin to anybody famous); in London...
...Tech men. The contests took only two sets and attested to the effectiveness of the Crimson doubles combinations. The Harvard netters added the Red and Grey to their collection of scalps which includes the University of Maine, Andover, Exeter, and Tufts. Members of the squad will travel to New Jersey in June in a bid for individual honors in the Intercollegiate Tennis Tournaments...