Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Henry Justin Allen was three years old. But 1,000 miles or so west of Warren County, Pa., where Baby Henry was learning to talk, a young telegraph operator named Edward Rosewater was finding life unusually busy. Within a few months he became 30 years old, a father and a newspaper owner. The baby he named Victor. The newspaper he called the Omaha...
...Julesburg, Colo. ... It was named for Old Man Jules, who lost his life and a pair of ears when he inadvertently fired two barrels full of bird shot into Jack Slade, one of the Old West's pet desperadoes...
...TRIAL OF MARY DUGAN-In which a chorus girl's brother is compelled to demolish her reputation in order to save her life (TIME...
...ROYAL FAMILY-Entertaining glimpses at the family life of our foremost stage stars (TIME...
Thinly disguised under the synonym Ottercove, Lord Newspaper-Magnate Beaverbrook appears in Gerhardi's new book, avowedly "pure and unmixed, except for the obvious extravaganza." But Beaver-brook's life has been so rich in extravaganza that the fictitious is not always obvious. Ottercove rides in a Winged Chariot, a comfortable limousine that darts down London streets or rises quietly into the air far above traffic and turmoil. He promises Protegé Dickon (Gerhardi himself in disguise) his greatest evening paper as wedding present, but reneges. He begets a son of Eva, whom he marries...