Word: live
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beds. For the past few weeks Dallas hotels have already been filled by people coming on Exposition business. To house the great influx expected, Dallas has been busy building tourist camps and tent cities on her outskirts, arranging to have Pullman cars kept on sidings for their passengers to live in, arranging a central booking bureau to which visitors can apply to rent rooms in several thousand private homes...
...Against the Sea, and Pitcairn's Island. For movie rights to Mutiny and Pitcairn's Island they received a total of . They had gone to Tahiti to escape a dollar civilization, but they wanted $60,000 for , their last book, and got it. It costs only vell to live in Tahiti, this sum being the price of a fishing license but their movies made so much money for Hollywood that they had to keep from being exploited. They live on opposite sides of Papecte, meet once a week to discuss their writing and great wealth...
...Perhaps Mr. Farley thinks that because the people out in the Midwest live in the prairie states, as did Lincoln, who was never heard of very much before his elevation to the Presidency they are all dumbbells, freaks, rubes and hicks...
...broken away, defeated Bilbo's candidate for Governor, ousted the Bilbo faction. When "The Man" Bilbo turned up in Washington three years ago and asked Senator Harrison for a job, he was politically down & out. With an old trouper's generosity, Pat Harrison lent Bilbo money to live on, got him a $6,000 job clipping newspapers for AAA. In 1934 Bilbo saw a chance for a comeback, returned to Mississippi to try for the U. S. Senate seat held by Hubert Stephens. Loyal to his junior colleague, Senator Harrison backed Senator Stephens let him have most...
...societies. In 1932 one M. E. Bogle, reputed originator and longtime ringleader of the racket, was indicted in Western Tennessee, fined $1,800, given a suspended sentence of 18 months. Near Addison, Ill., one night last December two brothers named Andrew and Dwight Walley were caught redhanded with 200 live quail which they were trucking from Mississippi to a nearby game farm. Happy were quail protectors, for the Walley brothers, alleged proteges of Bogle, were reputed to be topnotchers in the Mississippi racket. Jailed in Chicago on charges of conspiracy to violate a Federal game law, they faced possible sentences...