Word: marked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Arrested in Kobe was Mark A. Pierce, a substantial citizen of Los Angeles and onetime police commissioner, on a holiday in Japan. As his tourist ship was sailing through the Inland Sea, a detective had seen him taking photographs, which when developed showed a passing warship. He was severely questioned ten hours a day for eleven days, taken to a hotel at night. Japanese police thought they had hit on something real when they found in Pierce's baggage a scroll showing that Mark Pierce is entitled to be called "Colonel" in the State of Kentucky. Other suspicious facts...
...race for the second Freshman crew has been added with St. Mark's at Southboro on Tuesday, May 28, and the Jayvee race with Columbia and M.I.T. at New York on Saturday, May 18 has been canceled...
...earliest, most famed of composopraphs. the Venus of Urbino has the head of the wealthy, potent Duchess of Urbino attached to the body of a honey skinned Venetian strumpet. "The position of the left hand," wrote Mark Twain, "is one of the most brazen pieces of impudicity I have ever looked upon...
...other words," said he, "a competent plastic surgeon, if given time, can alter every mark by which human beings are ordinarily identified. The advantage which the police still have in dealing with criminals is that the criminal is always in a hurry. And this work, to be well done, takes time...
...experiment, Burlington put its new Zephyr Twins in service last month between Chicago and the Twin Cities on a 6½-hr. schedule. Zephyr Twins average 66 m.p.h., cost no more to run than large automobiles. Now building for Burlington is another stainless-steel streamliner, to be called Mark Twain, for the St. Louis-Burlington...