Word: lane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gesture, Henri Prince, representing New York's Mayor Walker, proclaimed adoption of the eight-year-old cornetist in the same band. Then all the mayors sang "Sweet Adeline." A portentous thunderstorm marked the night arrival of the mayors in Paris. They were met by Count jean de Castel-lane, president of the Municipal Council, who invited them to luncheon next day at the Hotel de Ville "in behalf of the Town of Paris." Quipped irrepressible Mayor Baker: "If Paris is just a town, I want to see one of your cities." Next morning the mayors, grumbling among themselves...
...Peter McManus, the baldheaded, 30-year old No. 5 who watched 14 Poughkeepsie regattas from his father's farm on the Hudson and, ten years after he got out of high school, made up his mind to go to college and become a crewman. Princeton, in the east lane, had about the same outside chance as the last Princeton crew which won the Carnegie Cup (1927). It so happened that the start of the race synchronized almost exactly with the start of the Kentucky Derby (see above), but otherwise there was no connection between the two events. Derby...
...Crimson track forces got a more definite idea of the work that is cut out for them at New Haven tomorrow when two fast trials on the sprinting lane yesterday afternoon revealed that Captain Munroe will not be in shape for the meet with the Elis...
...Duringer, 220-lb. truck driver. Duringer confessed that he had killed a red-headed dance hall hostess in a moment of drunken jealousy. Crowley, wanted for auto stealing and robbery, had shot down a Long Island policeman who approached while he was parked with his girl in a dark lane...
...bore the imposing title "Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?'' It brought him much publicity and many commissions. Feeling that there was a demand for this sort of thing, Artist Symons submitted another this year. It was called "My Lord I Meet in Every London Lane and Street." It included the figures of Jesus, St. Peter, St. John, the Holy Ghost, a perspective view of Tottenham Court Road, a steam roller, a baby Austin, a motorcycle, and about 100 assorted Londoners. Editors did not doubt that this overcrowded, execrable composition would be another Picture of the Year, gave...