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Word: keepers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clock Mr.Abraham renewed his efforts. So did Chang. By mid afternoon there was a crowd of several hundred around cheering the oddly matched contestants. Finally a park Keeper arrived with some loaves of bread and the show was over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHANG AND W. P. A. | 10/16/1935 | See Source »

Rare old musical manuscripts, personal property of and for years reserved for the British Royal Family, have been brought to American by Malcolm H. Holmes '28, conductor of the Pierian Sodality of 1808. The scores were released only by special permission of the Keeper of the King's Music...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rare Musical Manuscripts of British Royal Family Brought Here by Holmes | 10/12/1935 | See Source »

...arrived, the eagle was dead. A piece of cake lay beside it. An autopsy was ordered to see if the eagle had been poisoned. When it was over, the physician reported that Uncle Sam had undoubtedly been poisoned but New London officials refused to press the investigation. Keeper Kenerson buried his eagle beneath the cage and had a small tombstone made, inscribed: UNCLE SAM GOLDEN EAGLE

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Uncle Sam & Elmer | 10/7/1935 | See Source »

...other entertainments, while Mrs. Luce usually served among the patronesses. Padlocking of offending clubs was left to his discretion, but as a member of a final club himself, he gave them all tolerant treatment. As Chairman of the Committee on the Regulation of Non-Athletic Activities, he was keeper of the lists of officers and members of such groups as the Debating Council, the Dramatic Club, the Glee Club, and Instrumental Clubs, and had oversight of their functions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Office of Regent Passes With Resignation of Matthew Luce | 10/4/1935 | See Source »

...Acting Director Robert Bean fired Curator of Reptiles Mrs. Grace Wiley for letting a total of 19 snakes escape at various times from their cages. Among the missing: three Egyptian cobras whose bite is usually fatal, one deadly poisonous Bandy-Bandy and two mildly poisonous sand snakes. A keeper had found one sand snake when it bit him; a small boy brought in the other. Two of the cobras had been remarked by a woman visitor on top of a cage; the third was prodded out of a remote gutter with an acetylene blow torch by Director Bean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Apples | 9/30/1935 | See Source »

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