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Word: maile (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Quiet Dell. In his house was found a trunk full of correspondence from women all over the U. S. Buried near his garage was found another of his correspondents, Mrs. Asta Buick Eicher of Park Ridge, Ill., together with the bodies of her three children. Mr. Powers' system : mail-order them, marry them, mulct them, murder them (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Mr. Powers of Quiet Dell | 12/21/1931 | See Source »

Miss Helen Chandler is well cast as the mail-order bride from Kansas. Miss Chandler's extreme naivete, so often irritating has found its place here. Mr. Kent Douglass is not so much an actor as a boy with fine features, a sensitive mouth and engaging gaucheries. He has made uneven work of his part; at moments he achieves just the right mixture of weakness and fineness to play the son that Seth is ashamed of. Mr. Huston makes a going concern of a patchy plot by his forthright vitality...

Author: By G. G. B., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 12/16/1931 | See Source »

...love of football, dormant all through the season, was tardily awakened by a succinct little account of the Harvard-Yale game, in the Continental edition of the London Daily Mail. After a short introductory paragraph explaning to its readers on the Continent that the game had been won by Yale with a score of 3-0, the Daily Mail swung into the fray: "A 'spinner' by Yale's right half through the centre gave the first down to the Crimsons (Harvard) at the 11-yard mark. Then Eli, the Yale left half, heaved a long one that failed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 12/14/1931 | See Source »

...Dark. To add to his night-flying hours and some day qualify as a mail pilot. Pilot Lou Strickler, 18, flew in the moonlight one night last week around Latrobe Airport, Pa. Three friends who had been taking turns hopping with him waited on the ground, their automobile headlights marking the field to augment the airport's meagre lights. Pilot Strickler came in for a landing, "felt his plane hit something," learned to his horror that he had mowed down and killed his three friends

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Flights & Flyers, Dec. 7, 1931 | 12/7/1931 | See Source »

...inventory value shrinkage, the late Theodore Frelinghuysen Merseles was made president. Expansion followed and in 1927 President Merseles left to head Johns-Manville. He was in this position when he died in 1929. Succeeding him in Montgomery Ward was George Bain Everitt who had had 15 years of mail order experience. The company then began opening its chain stores. Inventories and assets shot upwards but the program'was predicated on further sales growth. Depression hit the company badly. Recent earnings have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Morgan's Chicago Man | 12/7/1931 | See Source »

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