Word: laking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...major hit was as Cho-Cho-San in Madame Butterfly in 1900. As Cigarette in Under Two Flags (1901), as the breezily beautiful Girl of The Girl of the Golden West (1905), her popularity hit tops. She retired in 1926, returned to the stage briefly in 1933 in The Lake, with Katharine Hepburn. She was married twice, the second time to World War I Propagandist George Creel...
Crime Kids. In Salt Lake City, police hunting the burglar of a machine shop found footprints-six-year-old size. In Boston, police arrested a twelve-year-old boy for an attempted holdup, relieved him of five automatics, one revolver, six packages of shells...
...country's top-notchers from Leslie MacMitchell down), tennis matches featuring Don McNeill, Jack Kramer, Ted Schroeder and other top-ten amateurs, a basketball game between Tennessee (Southeastern Conference champions) and Long Island University (Madison Square Garden champions), boxing matches, crew races and a sailing regatta on Lake Pontchartrain. Months ago, New Orleans hotels were already turning down reservations for Sugar Bowl week. Last week beds were being set up in Turkish baths...
...nothing stronger than beer. He thought nothing of working 16 to 18 hours a day, kept himself in prime physical condition. His performance in the recent Louisiana maneuvers was outstanding. He often took chances he would permit none of his men to take. Piloting his plane from Shreveport to Lake Charles, he was advised that half-a-gale was blowing, that he couldn't possibly come...
Service. In Salt Lake City, the city commissioners paid a firm of experts $2,500 to recommend improvements in the city government. The experts recommended that the commissioners' jobs be abolished...