Word: los
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Los Angeles, Calif...
...Willebrandt was not alone in the public eye. Newshawks penetrated to the village of Lomita, suburb of Los Angeles, to interview and photograph a schoolteacher named Arthur F. Willebrandt, 40 years old, with a pompadour. Court records show that Arthur F. Willebrandt divorced "M. Elizabeth Willebrandt" in 1925. The disguised name was Mrs. Willebrandt's idea. Mr. Willebrandt's grounds were amicable. He charged desertion after they had been separated some eight years. She did not contest the suit...
Fool Proof. Conspicuous among the hundreds of planes at the National Aeronautical Exposition at Mines Field, Los Angeles, was a stubby little contraption which the curious observed had no horizontal stabilizer, but a "stagger" so pronounced that the lower wing itself was almost in the position of a stabilizer. It also had the eccentricity of a decolage, or angle of the lower wing in relation to 'the upper wing, and a pilot's seat placed back against the tail. Questions addressed to a nervous, alert, bearded little man, seldom far away, brought vociferous response supplemented by rapid curves and graphs...
...Walker's own pastorate is the First Presbyterian Church of Los Angeles. He is 66 years old and during his lifetime has been an increasingly potent advocate of Prohibition. In the long, well-considered, closely reasoned statement which he issued last week, he said: "More than 40 years ago I entered into the fight while a pastor in the South,* a section most conservative in the matter of mixing politics and religion. We were given the unqualified support of all good men, regardless of party, and no one ever intimated that we were doing anything more than our plain duty...
...thousand other colleges also went on opening parade last week, from the University of Maine at Orono to the University of Southern California at Los Angeles. Some had new trappings of professors, buildings, courses; most merely brushed up their fustiness...