Word: luke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Their Britannic Majesties. Queen Mary was reported to have baited His Majesty's hook, last week, with a worm, in the presence of witnesses. "She can do it much better than I can," was a remark attributed to George V by a correspondent of the U. S. Luke Lea newspaper chain...
...saddest of all was the case of Luke Briotta, 13, deaf and dumb. Pilot Charles Potholm took him for a ride and went into a loop-the-loop with the idea of frightening him into speech and hearing. But the plane never came out of that loop; Luke Briotta is still deaf and dumb-and dead. There had been a sickening dive, an explosion and flames, an ugly hole in a swamp near Agawam, Mass. Pilot Potholm and another passenger also died...
...three years, Psychiatrist James Lincoln McCartney watched, studied, ministered to the missionary mind. He recognized the presence of a curious mental instability among transplanted Westerners. In the clinics of St. Luke's Hospital, Shanghai, he saw many a case written down as "neurasthenic," "insane," "neurotic." In the Peking Union Medical College, he heard fellow psychiatrists place the blame on food, climate, economic readjustments. But enthusiastic, 30-year-old Dr. McCartney sought a subtler, more basic cause...
...clock each morning, taxicabs with their doors held open like traps, line lower Broadway's sidewalk, to carry night workers away. Hornblower & Weeks, stock market brokers, at Easter gave their heavily worked clerks two weeks extra pay. A fortnight ago the company repeated the bonus. Luke, Banks & Weeks, another brokerage house, divided a day's brokerage commissions among their clerks. Other houses have dealt as handsomely...
...Frank Luke Jr., destroyed eleven German balloons and three airplanes in four days, in September 1918, was officially rated an ace in October, killed in November...