Word: kevin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Newark, N. J., Mr. & Mrs. Gerard Gardiner's two-story frame house caught fire. Awakened by the smoke, Mrs. Gardiner's sister wrapped one-month-old Kevin Gardiner in blankets, called to men in the yard, and dropped the baby from the second-story window. In the smoke and darkness they thought she was tossing a bundle of clothes, let it fall, dragged it 20 feet from the house, left it in the snow. Half an hour later a fireman heard the baby cry, picked it up unharmed...
...Died. Kevin Butler. 33. son of U. S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Pierce Butler; of injuries suffered when he fell through a Pullman car lavatory window at "Devil's Bend.'' one of Pennsylvania Railroad's sharpest curves; at Greensburg...
Quipped the Chronicle's Rhymester Kevin Wallace...
...Because a rook upset his milk pail, St. Kevin condemned all rooks to be "sad, cawing and having the law of one another for very dismalness." But St. Kevin was far from cruel. When a blackbird laid an egg in his hand, he held it steady until it hatched...
...hospital with lockjaw, received, for no reason that the Press could discover, a letter wishing for his early recovery and signed "Franklin D. Roosevelt." Said Thomas Fitzgerald: "I wouldn't take $5,000 for that letter." Week before a similar letter was addressed to 13-year-old Kevin Reardon of Camden, N. J. whose father is an acquaintance of the President, but it arrived too late. Kevin had been buried the day before...