Word: mail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ashton, Idaho, Earl Kimball of the government mail service won the eleventh annual U. S. dog derby, a much shorter event. Breaking no record he covered the 25-mile course in 1 hr., 57 min., 16 sec., evoked comment by using a team of Irish setters. The latter are said to have understood the term "Mush!" perfectly, to have behaved beautifully in the absence of quail, pheasant...
Sued for Divorce. By Adele Rosenwald Deutsch, daughter of Julius Rosenwald, Chairman of the Board of Sears, Roebuck & Co. (mail order); Armand Deutsch, in Paris. In 1924 their son, Armand Jr., was said to have been on the list of names from which Loeb & Leopold selected their victim...
Marie Drazdorf dumped piles of mail into the stove. Proposals of marriage, she knew they were, from gentlemen, knaves and louts who yesterday would not have noticed a sweeper of floors, a scrubber of steps. She burned everything without opening an envelope. Half of them were begging letters, too; boasts from dressmakers, stores offering credit, lawyers offering advice. . . . Marie Drazdorf spent some of her savings for a new suit for her boy, but she told her man, Josef Raff, to keep on working like the steady man he was. They would wait for the fortune to come in July. Then...
...next few days, Sir Oliver was deluged with mail. By tens of thousands thinkers (and guessers) wrote in to say that the cards held up had been every card in the pack, including the joker. Actually, as a few guessed, it was the deuce of clubs, later the nine of hearts? but no one described the design of the cards: green on a black field, and red on a black field. They said the picture was a portrait of Edward VII, of the Prince of Wales on horseback, of Mona Lisa, of a spaniel, a cauliflower. Actually...
...Oliver settled down to sort and examine his large mail. The press echoed with skeptical reflections on the laws of chance and Lodge logic. Many people recall that similar tests held lately by conservative Dr. G. H. Estabrook, onetime Harvard psychologist, had produced no evidence for mental telepathy...