Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dozen undergraduate college flyers left Detroit last week, proud of having formed an Intercollegiate Aeronautics Association, poor from the expenses made at Detroit, encouraged by promises of free raining planes from sympathetic manufacturers...
Some weeks back bachelor Tsar Boris left Sofia in cheerful mood. Traveling incognito as Count Stanislaw Rilski of Warsaw, he joked with railway officials, and hoped that this would be his last journey alone. It was understood in Sofia that Tsar Boris's official matchmaker, gallant General Ivan Wolkoff, was in Rome arranging for the marriage of Tsar Boris with the King of Italy's daughter Giovanna. Pictures of Princess Giovanna appeared in Sofia shopwindows. Newspapers said that a compromise had been reached with the Vatican whereby the first male child of Princess Giovanna and Tsar Boris might...
Died. Arthur Morgan Smith, of Cleveland, secretary-treasurer of Gas Machinery Co.; in Manhattan. Early one morning Mr. Smith left a party in Manhattan's Hotel Marguery with Oilman Samuel E. Bell of Baltimore and Mrs. Robert L. Brown, wife of a Kentucky bond salesman. What apparently happened: Mr. Smith wished to escort Mrs. Brown home. So did Oilman Bell. In a tussle Oilman Bell shoved Mr. Smith, who fell in the gutter. Next afternoon he died at his hotel, supposedly of diabetes. Autopsy revealed a fractured skull...
...Maryland barred Sinclair horses "to keep the game clean." Nathan F. Leopold Jr., once of Chicago, from now on of Joliet, Ill., Penitentiary, co-murderer in 1924 of small Robert Franks, is to get all or part or none of the income from a trust fund of $50,000 left by his father for his "care, maintenance or benefit," as decided by his brothers, Foreman N. and Samuel N. Leopold, trustees. So it came out last week from the senior Leopold's will. The two trustee brothers get equal shares of $500,000. Soprano Mary Garden met Tenor Beniamino...
Officials of the Bureau of Standards affixed 700 stamps to envelopes, put them in a revolving barrel, turned it with electric power until the edges of the envelopes were worn off: Not one stamp left its envelope. Results: proof that there is no base for recent charges that U. S. stamps do not stick on as long as they used...