Word: manxman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...other diversions which the curious little Isle of Man otters tourists is an annual automobile race. There one evening last May famed British Sportsman Kaye Don, in preparation for the race, was speeding around a corner at something like a mile a minute when his car scraped a Manxman's sedan, jumped a hedge, landed upside down 75 yd. away. Don's mechanic, Francis Taylor, was killed. When Kaye Don hobbled out of the hospital last week, he hobbled straight into an ancient courtroom where Manx Deemsters are sworn to uphold justice "as indifferently as the herring...
...Bellamy, 75, author of The Pledge to the Flag; in Tampa, Fla. The pledge: "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." Died. Sir Hall Caine, 78, famed novelist (The Manxman, The Eternal City, The Woman Thou Gavest Me); of lung congestion; in Greeba Castle, Isle of Man. He was a close friend of David Lloyd George and of the late Poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti...