Word: lexington
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Class B contestants number 278, entered by Arlington, Belmont, Beverly, Concord, David Prouty of Spencer, Fairhaven, Haverhill, Leominster, Lexington, Malden, Mariborough, Methuen, Milton, Needham, Newburyport, Quincy, Salem, Somerville, Taunton, Wakefield, Watertown, Winchester, Winthrop, Woburn, and Worcester Commerce High Schools...
...house was built in 1762 by John Hicks who lived in it with his family until the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. Being an ardent sympathizer with the patriot cause, he received word on April 19, 1775, of the battle of Lexington. He gathered together three friends and rode with them, armed and provisioned, to the North Cambridge turnpike, where he prepared an ambush for the returning red-coats...
...will be served in the Farrar Room, Andover Hall, at 5.30 o'clock. In the evening the Reverend E. M. Slocombe, of Lexington, will conduct the Chapel service in Divinity Chapel...
...packets, Mlle. Roseray waded into a small and shallow Central Park pond, splashed. A man dashed, fully garbed, toward the floundering female, who struggled away from him through the broken ice. "Mister, Mister, let me alone," she cried, but eventually permitted herself to be taken to the Lexington Avenue Hospital. Here, Mlle. Roseray was treated by a Dr. Martin J. Blank, who, despite his name, was no party to the plot; the man was put to bed so as to recover from a severe chill...
...would have chosen such a time for submergence. They discovered a photograph of a man, across which was scribbled an illegible endearment, in Mlle. Roseray's handbag; but no clue was offered when they perceived that the image was that of the proprietor of her night club. The Lexington Avenue Hospital refused to inform them as to whether Mlle. Roseray would recover, or how soon. These details the reporters were compelled to invent...