Word: lis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...closing day at Bowie, Jockey Oros put on as exciting a show for Maryland racegoers as Don Meade had ever given Hialeah patrons. With a leg up on six mounts, he won three races (including the Daily Double), finished in the money with the other three. His triple brought lis string of victories to 105 since January 1-14 more than Meade, his nearest competitor...
Annulled. The 1928 marriage of Ernst ^.iidiger, Prince von Starhemberg. 38, one-time Austrian Heimwehr leader, to Countess Maria Elizabeth von Salm-Reiffer-scheidt-Raitz, 29, by both religious and civil courts at Salzburg and Vienna. Proceedings have dragged on since 1935. when he Prince appealed for annulment because lis wife had borne no heirs to the Starhemberg estates (on which he now owes $60,000 tax arrears). Vienna rumor announced that he would be married this week to Actress Nora Gregor, a Max Reinhardt protegée, who has already given him a male heir...
...Representative Herbert Seely Bigelow of Ohio is pastor of Cincinnati's People's Church. Secretary of State of Iowa is Dr. Robert Enlow O'Brian, Methodist minister and onetime president of Morningside College in Sioux City. Currently many a New Jersey Republican favors, as lis next gubernatorial candidate, Rev. Lester Harrison Clee, State Senator and pastor of Newark's Second Presbyterian Church...
...yachting cap. Most of his staff, during a lull in their enforced tour of duty with the troops, were still in uniform. A gay note was the guard of honor, dressed in 14th Century Florentine helmets and breastplates and carrying not Fascist banners, but the ancient white fleur-de-lis of the Republic of Florence...
...Author. Paul Engle was born and raised on his father's ranch in Iowa. He went to school at Cedar Rapids, worked lis way through Coe College selling news-Dapers. jerking soda. At the University of Iowa Stephen Vincent Benet gave him encouragement. As a Rhodes Scholar from Iowa he has completed his first year at Oxford (Merton College). Engle likes swimming and horses and is now "writing very hard on a horse novel." A first volume of verse, The Warm Earth, was published in 1933 by the Yale University press in its Younger Poets series...