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Word: lindberghism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Violet Sharpe, 28, of Tupps Clump, England, maidservant in the home of Mrs. Dwight Whitney Morrow; by her own hand (cyanide); in Englewood, N. J. She had been sharply questioned by police investigating the kidnapping of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. She seemed timid, reticent. Just before she was to be questioned further regarding one Ernest Brinkert. taximan of White Plains, N. Y., with whom the police were led to believe she went riding on the night of March 1, Maid Sharpe took her life, apparently in a fit of nerves. Later the police were forced to exonerate not only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 20, 1932 | 6/20/1932 | See Source »

Means heard himself called a "slippery, slimy racketeer" in the District of Columbia Supreme Court, was found guilty of larceny of $104,000 from Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean in his fantastic plan to recover Charles Augustus Lindbergh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 20, 1932 | 6/20/1932 | See Source »

...Reporter Miller interviews famous transients ("Slim" Lindbergh, Herbert Hoover, Babe Ruth et al.), how the silvery grunion come out of the sea with the spring tides to dance on their tails on the beach (TIME, May 9) are among other waterfront marvels. One moonlit night, when he was lying on a solitary beach, a baby sea lion came and nestled beside him for warmth and company. An hour they lay, then Reporter Miller trudged off to work, followed by the baby sea lion's lustrous, wondering eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Waterfront Pages | 6/20/1932 | See Source »

...author's idea that it was a temporary aberration which has passed now. He traces the development of romance in the common man's life through the rise of the hero-worship mania but concludes that it is dying out--the book was written before the spectacle of the Lindbergh baby incident...

Author: By R. N. G., | Title: BOOKENDS | 6/17/1932 | See Source »

Colyumist Jay Elmer House of the New York Evening Post last week received from a correspondent in Trieste, a clipping from the Ultime Notizie. A headline translated, read: "New Phase in the Lindbergh Drama: Curtis Is About to Be Arrested." From beneath the headline stared a photograph of Vice President Charles Curtis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Culprit | 6/13/1932 | See Source »

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