Word: kurd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...greatest record of any woman golfer in the world: three Scottish championships, two British championships, three U. S. championships, three Canadian championships, and winner of an average of 20 tournaments a year since she won her first prize in 1895. Now married to a Princeton banker, Dorothy lona Campbell Kurd Howe, 55, is still as British as tweed, plays golf three times a week, knits stockings, rides a bicycle, helps her husband raise Jersey cows...
...wife is a Pyle. Ann, 22, does not paint but writes music. Her husband paints. Andrew, 20, already paints so well that his first one-man show in Manhattan's Macbeth Gallery last month was a sellout. Henriette, 29, married to Painter Peter Kurd, won first prize in the Wilmington show from...
...left, after ordering another Colt and a .35 automatic Winchester rifle, promising to drop in to get them in a few weeks, Proprietor Hurd, to be on the safe side, called the Bangor police. The Bangor police called the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington. To the F.B.I. Mr. Kurd's description of his customers sounded exactly like Al Brady, Clarence Lee Shaffer Jr. and James Dalhover, notorious midwest bank robbers, who liked to boast that John Dillinger was only a "creampuff" bandit. These diminutive badmen (all three between 5 ft. 5 in. and 5 ft. 6 in. tall...
...innocently on the railway platform at Aleppo. Ruthlessly the gendarmes tore the cases apart and, like hens who had just done their duty on the nest, gave a chorus of self-satisfied ejaculations as they discovered not fruit, but cartridges and arms. The crates were consigned to rebellious Moslem Kurd tribesmen in northeastern Syria who have been revolting for weeks against French rule, who only day before had swooped down from the back country to pillage Christian homes and shops in Amouda near the Turkish frontier...
...shipment had been sent too late, for the same day a French squadron of bombing planes droned low over Amouda, dropped their explosives on ramshackle huts. Motorized infantry units swept into the village to mop up, and the planes roared away to disperse Kurd concentrations in three other villages...