Word: lating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...late Sunday evening; an automobile containing a man and his wife with their small child beside them is driving leisurely home from a Sunday holiday. Two men with sawed off shot guns step from the bushes and order the vehicle to halt. Thoughts of highway robberies, his family, a hundred dollars in his pocket, who knows what flash through the mind of the man at the wheel. Confused he hesitates before applying the breaks. Two shotguns blaze out, twenty-six slugs strike the side of the car, and the driver crumples over into his wife's lap, dead. Such...
Past-president of the Society is Howard Thurston of Beechurst, L. I., famed professional, near-peer of the late great Harry Houdini. He was succeeded last week by Hardeen, brother of Houdini. Other prominent national members include the following amateurs: Artist Harlan Tarbell of Chicago, Patent Attorney J. C. Wobensmith of Philadelphia, Royal C. Vilas of Bridgeport, Conn. The New York chapter is headed by Lawyer Bernard M. L. Ernst. Its officers include Leo Rullman, acting Deputy Collector of the Port of New York, and Dentist Lionel Hartley...
...useful publications, and by such other agencies and means as shall from time to time be found appropriate therefor." A notable addition to the Carnegie Institution's basic $27,000,000 endowment was the half-million which Mrs. Edward Henry Harriman, sole heir and active manager of the late great railroad organizer's $100,000,000 estate, gave in 1918. She was and is interested in problems of human heredity...
Died. Dr. Edward Mansfield McGuffey, 74, of Elmhurst, N. Y., rector of St. James's Protestant Episcopal Church, authority on canon law, son of the late Alexander McGuffey (coauthor of famed McGuffey Readers); in Elmhurst...
Chester Alan Arthur Jr., 28, of Santa Barbara, Cal., grandson of the late Republican President of the U. S., is a sailor on a freighter, intends to write a nautical novel. Last week, on shore leave in Philadelphia, he said he had supported Alfred Emanuel Smith in the recent election, had once been jailed in Boston for ballyhooing the Sinn Fein movement...