Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Helen Wills, 22, holder of U. S., English and French tennis championships, fair-to-middling painter; to Frederick Shander Moody Jr., 27, stock broker of San Francisco, fair-to-middling tennis player.* They first met at Cannes in 1926. Said Miss Wills last week: "I will play tennis as long as I can hold a racquet." The London Evening News talked to Miss Wills in Berkeley, Calif., over long distance telephone to get the story...
Died. Henry King Braky, 78, senior justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court, onetime mayor of Fall River; after a long illness; in Boston. Justice Braley handed down the court decision on the last Sacco-Vanzetti appeal...
Still interested in Innovation, however, Mr. Bonsall last spring visited the Innovation plant in Long Island City, last fall wrote to Mr. Trentacoste a letter which later was used in the sale of an Innovation stock issue. Said Mr. Bonsall, in part...
...father was then president of the Pennsylvania railroad. At Pennsylvania, Student Thornton won fame as a line-plunger, helped Penn beat Princeton (1892) and after graduating became football coach at Vanderbilt. He then (1894) entered the Pennsylvania Railroad offices as a draftsman, remained to become (1911) superintendent of the Long Island Railroad...
...Jack boarded the train, having flown in hot pursuit of his runaway wife. Hugely flattered, she remembered to be cross with him; pitched promptly into the political battle, and continued hostilities through and in spite of another of those French railway accidents. Her father-in-law, emerging from a long faint, marveled that she should so tenderly minister to his wounds, the while brutally warring with his son. This modern generation-impossible that they should one moment barely escape death, and the next moment resume their petty quarrel. Had they no nerves, no emotions...