Word: manly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Subway Express. If a police inspector be summoned aboard a subway train and told that a man has been shot dead, it may well give him pause. If a medical examiner gets on a few stations down the line and declares that the killing resulted not from shooting but from electrocution a few moments beforehand, the inspector may well be dumbfounded. If the car lights are suddenly extinguished and a likely witness is riddled with bullets, the inspector may even be pardoned for surrendering his badge...
...Dorothy Peterson) and his partner (Edward Pawley), who was also Mrs. Tracy's lover. After the dark murder of a clerk (J. Hammond Dailey) in the firm of the deceased, the Inspector ordered the motorman to retrace his course. Then he discovered how it was possible for a man to be electrocuted in a subway car designed to insulate its passengers from any possible contact with the third rail...
...Barcaldine history is then exposed in a series of flashbacks-an accidental meeting at an exposition in the century's early years, a wedding in a registry office with two charwomen as witnesses. Years later their only daughter gives herself to a married man who lives in the flat below and dies in childbirth. Barcaldine faces a bankruptcy court. But always there are subtle filaments which bind man and wife -"Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown...
...Aviation, Mr. Ingalls' predecessor in the Navy Department : ''An epic of aviation. Nothing approaching its importance has been accomplished within the past two years." Thurman Harrison Bane, chief of The Aviation Corp.'s technical staff: "Doolittle's flight marks the first stage in man's conquest of flying in fog, now aviation's greatest obstacle." Charles Sherman ("Casey") Jones, president of Curtiss Flying Service: "The mechanical perfection of the new instruments employed required thorough testing by an expert pilot before they could be judged." Harry Frank Guggenheim: "The results of the experiment will...
...bowels" drove her to bed, where she began memorizing the Scriptures. Recovering, she became no sinful "great lover" despite the boastful penitence which she later expressed. When young Doctor-Boarder Gloyd kissed Carry, 19, in a dark hallway, she twice shouted: "I am ruined!" She married this man. She blamed the failure of the union, and her husband's death, not on her own connubial shortcomings but on Masons, tobacco and liquor (the Doctor was, significantly, seldom sober). When her daughter's cheek was eaten away with a sore, Carry accused the child of impiety...