Word: lamming
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...After the benediction, as the Duke & Duchess of Norfolk were returning up the aisle, pew occupants were obliged to restrain another page who persisted in the notion that it would be jolly if he could manage to step on the bride's 15-ft. train of shimmering silver lam...
...girl was acquitted. Arrested girls were taken to the ring's lawyer, a disbarred attorney named Karp, coached in an alibi. Eight out of ten appeared in court, were freed on their stories. Those who seemed sure to be convicted were told to "take it on the lam" (disappear temporarily) and their bail was forfeited. "We have identified," cried Prosecutor Dewey, "some 170-odd arrests for prostitution in 1935 in which the girls worked for this combination. Not one of these girls ever went to jail...
...family. Occasion was the marriage in Vienna last week of Infante Alphonse of Bourbon-Caserta, nephew of deposed Alfonso of Spain, to the Princess Alice of Bourbon-Parma, niece of deposed Empress Zita of Austria. Crowds gawked at the door of the church, admired the bride's silver lamé gown, the brilliant uniforms of the guests. Almost unnoticed in another part of Vienna was another wedding guest, Britain's onetime Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain. The presence of this British elder statesman with his monocle screwed into his emaciated aristocratic face suggested bigger news than...
...backyard. Telling his callers to wait until he got a shirt on, Lamson vanished into the house. A few minutes later he opened the front door, cried: "My God, my wife has been murdered." Rushing in, the agent and client found the nude, dead body of Allene Thorpe Lam son sprawled over the rim of a blood-splattered bathtub. The back of her head was bashed in. In the burning rubbish outside was a discolored iron pipe. Police put two & two together, charged David Albert Lamson with murder in the first degree (TIME, Sept...
Among the principal awards are the six Charles Dexter scholarships for the summer of 1934, enable students to visit Oxford and Cambridge in England, of the English cathedral towns.The winners are Lyman E.Butterfield 1G. of Rochester, New York; Samuel P,Chew, Jr 3G, of West River, Maryland Toy Lam son. Jr, 5G. of Cambridge; James S. McLaughlin, 2G of Oberlin, Ohio Brooklyn, New York and Francis L. Utley ,5G, of Escanaba, Michigan...