Word: lookout
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...publish her biography of Elbert Gary, U. S. Steel tycoon, anticipations of juicy revelations ran high. They soon ran low when it was discovered that Gary was the hero, not the villain, of the book. She pictured Gary as the champion of "decent business ethics," has been on the lookout for more ethical business heroes ever since...
Noticeable in the comparatively small crowds that attend the A. A. U. boxing championships each year are certain shabby individuals who stand in the corridors of Madison Square Garden, munching on unlighted cigars, spitting thoughtfully. They are professional fight managers on the lookout for good material. They do not bother to look at most of the fights because they know before the tournament starts which fighters are worth watching. Last week the members of this group spent most of their time in or near the dressing room of Eddie Flynn, a Loyola University dentistry student who was defending his championship...
...TREASURY DEPARTMENT HAS ASKED ALL BANKS IN THE COUNTRY TO BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR A SERIES OF FIVE, TEN AND TWENTY DOLLAR BILLS, WHICH ARE NOT COUNTERFEIT BUT WHICH BEAR RECORDED NUMBERS. THE UNITED PRESS HAS BEEN ASKED BY COLONEL LINDBERGH NOT TO GIVE THIS STORY PUBLICATION BECAUSE IT WOULD SERIOUSLY INTERFERE WITH THE WORK THE FAMILY IS DOING TO RECOVER THE CHILD. NEEDLESS TO SAY THE DEDUCTIONS TO BE DRAWN FROM THIS SITUATION ARE OBVIOUS AND RUMORS TO THE EFFECT THAT THE BABY IS HOME ARE ERRONEOUS...
...editors of the publication. Theories have been advanced by those who urge a thorough search of the east wing of Peabody Museum, where it was felt that the alligator might turn up. In respect to Arthur the Seagull, police of Sandwich, Massachusetts, are keeping a sharp lookout for a small bird named "Minnie", sole surviving Heath Hen of the Bay State, and friend of the Harvard gull several years ago. Description of the hunted bird, which tallies somewhat with that of the Lampoon's sacred Ibis, states that Minnie is slight, grey-colored, with pale features and a closely-cropped...
...banged shutters and rattled windows at the lonely New Jersey home of Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, had died down last week. Two weeks of March had run out. But still the curly-headed baby for whom all police and all good citizens of the nation were on anxious lookout, was a lost child. The strain told on the bereaved mother, soon to become a mother again. Physicians attended her, but still she was seen with her mother and sister going about her robbed house, managing, helping, hoping. At Hopewell, where the Press kept constant contact with the State police...