Word: mi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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True some shots were taken at Chatsworth, within the radius given. But for two weeks this mountain town, [200 mi. from Hollywood] was overrun with synthetic Bengalese, an increase of 31 ⅓ % in population. Paramount dropped $30,000 of the million and a half here, gave most their first glimpse of an elephant, almost succeeded in driving a few of our topers into taking the pledge. My congregation upped one, a gloriously illuminated grip-man, one of eight rewarded with a gallon-of-whiskey bonus by the director for working all Saturday night...
Cobina Wright was the only one of his five wives to part by divorce from Owen Johnson (Stover at Yale), Born Esther Cobb on an Oregon ranch 90 mi. from a railroad, she was taken abroad by an aunt; at 16 she made her operatic debut in Germany and married Novelist Johnson. After War and divorce she entered Manhattan society by way of marriage to a wealthy broker named William May Wright. In 1924 she began a series of concerts chiefly distinguished by her Poiret gowns. Meantime she was becoming famed for large, jolly parties to which socialites and celebrities...
...clock on a cloudy April morning two horsemen clattered up to the country home of Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd in Charles County, Md., 30 mi. southeast of Washington. One's face was tight with pain and his left leg, booted and spurred, hung limp from the stirrup. The other, a chinless, watery-eyed youth, helped his companion dismount, hobble into the house. Dr. Mudd received them in his nightshirt. A kindly, cultured young physician, he was already well established in his country practice, well-liked and well-to-do. He set the hurt man's broken...
...launched its victorious, land-grabbing war with Mexico. Feeling its imperial oats, the young nation decided to build a magnificent fortress, a Gibraltar of America. Chosen as a good site was a desolate coral reef 65 mi. off Key West in the Gulf of Mexico. The reef, named Dry Tortugas by Ponce de Leon because it swarmed with turtles, consisted of ten keys-strung ten miles east & west. With tremendous enthusiasm and at tremendous cost the Government began to transport plaster, mortar, bricks from the North. Slowly on 25-acre Garden Key rose Fort Jefferson-barracks for six companies...
...Laredo, Tex., one Paul Max Neuhaus set out to win a $500 bet by knocking a golf ball to Rouses Point, N. Y. (3,000 mi.) in 160 days...