Word: langs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plain, heavy-jawed washwoman, a four-time widow. The other was her washwoman friend, Mrs. Evelyn Smith, 46, onetime burlesque dancer, prostitute and wife of a Chinese laundryman. Somehow, between them, they had murdered Mrs. Dunkel's son-in-law, a grocer's clerk named Ervin Lang, who after his wife's death last December was planning to remarry. Mrs. Dunkel promptly confessed that she had offered Mrs. Smith $500 for the job, paid $100 on account...
Born To Anton Lang Jr., German professor at Georgetown University, son of the onetime Christus of the Oberammergau Passion Play; and Klara Mayr Lang, onetime Magdalene of the Passion Play: twin daughters, each weighing 6 lb.; in Washington...
Startled at first, then highly amused, Lord High Commissioner "P. G." made no reference to the incident, confined his remarks to recalling the happy coincidence that the Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England, and the Moderator of the Church of Scotland, Dr. Marshall Buchanan Lang, are brothers...
...clock one April morning a tall, square-jawed man sat hunched over a table in his Winchester, Mass. home, writing a note. "Howard W. Lang," it read. "You told me that you would keep after me until you got me. Now you can take full credit for my death...
Middlesex County authorities promptly turned to Howard Lang. Bushy-browed Mr. Lang offered little light. His quarrel with Bowen Tufts dated back a dozen years to a personal feud arising out of a reorganization of Mr. Lang's real estate firm. He was questioned closely, absolved of all blame. Next Attorney General Paul A. Dever, a young, ambitious Irishman eight years out of law school, plunged into the case side by side with the Securities Division of the Massachusetts Public Utilities Commission. Slowly, day by day, they began unraveling the business affairs of Bowen Tufts, so complicated that...