Word: knapps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Virginia natives were chuckling last week over a story about Tycoons William Ellis Corey (steel) and Joseph K. Knapp (American lithographic) and some 3,800 wild ducks on their expensive Back Bay and Currituck Sound shooting preserves. The story was that Sportsmen Corey & Knapp, just to be sure of something to shoot at when they went ducking, caused expert duck raisers to hatch and raise 3,800 wild fowl. So fond of their homes did these ducks become, so fat did they grow on tycoon-bought grain, that when Sportsmen Corey, Knapp & friends appeared to do some shooting, the ducks...
...than of character, made so by the skill of Lucille La Verne and James Cagney. She is the owner of a penny arcade, which she runs with an avarice only equaled by her devotion to bourgeois respectability and to her son, Cagney, a snivelling, dependent coward. Best shot-Evelyn Knapp getting pennies to be used by the arcade's customers...
...amongst whom were probably some students, too young to have been "over there" in 1918, and who wouldn't have been there if they could have, but anyway do you "death old things" really think the Legion (900,000 MEN NOT children) care what the CRIMSON thinks? A. P. Knapp, Legionnaire, Washington...
...sure to be Temple IV of California or Peggy Wee of Long Island. At the start Peggy Wee was over the line before the gun and had to clear off the course and come round again. Nine boats were around the first mark ahead of her, but somehow Arthur Knapp Jr. and Newell P. Weed worked Peggy Wee through them and slipped past Temple IV on the last windward leg, to come in fourth?winning first place with 98 points...
...Haven, Conn., October 10--The move to limit attendance at Yale football games gained momentum today when the Yale Alumni Weekly printed a letter from Farwell Knapp, assistant state tax collector, which stated that the crowds at the games should be "limited to undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty members, with perhaps an allowance of one or two guests apiece...