Word: namee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reilly of Jersey City, N. J., stole three lanterns, was arrested by three policemen, was convicted on the testimony of three boys, was sentenced to three months in the county jail, was placed in cell No. 3. Numerologists also pointed out that he has three letters in his first name...
Advertisement for autocars: a large skinny horse, sculptured as he stumbles slowly along a road; surmounted by the figure of a man carrying a banner on which, in gold lettering, is traced the name of a brand of automobile...
...Astor family were not seamen historically. Less than 100 years ago John Jacob Astor, first of the clan to stamp his name upon U. S., was still selling furs and dealing in Manhattan real estate with such finesse as to rear an historic fortune. He begat William Backhouse Astor, called "Landlord of New York." who begat John Jacob Astor, who begat John Jacob Astor, who begat William Vincent Astor...
Reported Engaged. Michael Arlen, whose name used to be Dikran Kuyumjian, famed Mayfair novelist, dramatist, popularizer of green hats; to Countess Atlanta Mercati, daughter of Count Alexander Mercati, onetime Lord Chamberlain to a King of Greece...
...spectacle, he determined to find some way to aid blind people, some way in which, if they could never see, they might at least learn to read. His method, a system of printing books with embossed letters, was developed and improved by Louis Braille. The code which bears his name is an alphabet in which the letters are represented by raised dots, differing in number and position...