Word: nearly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt, 54, in her syndicated column, My Day: "I suppose I had better make a confession. I was stopped by a highway patrol officer yesterday. My boys* have always said that it would give them great satisfaction if I would be arrested and I think yesterday I came very near receiving more than the gentle reprimand which was given to me. I had been talking and apparently not watching my speedometer, so I was firmly convinced that I had never gone over 45, and the patrol officer quite as firmly told me I was going 60, and that...
Less humble was Tobacco Millionheir Angier Biddle Duke, 23, who, arrested last June for speeding near Huntington, L. I. (his fourth offense in two months), was last week fined $250, had his driving license taken away from him. Duke angered a Long Island justice of the peace by forgetting just how many times he had been arrested and how big were fines he had paid...
Laguna's flag-bedecked festival site last week was a fenced-in, eucalyptus-shaded vacant lot two blocks from the sea. Under a big top near the puppet-show tent such bright California lights as Millard Sheets, William Wendt, William Griffith, Frank Cuprien, Ruth Peabody hung their pictures; the works of lesser lights were displayed in sideshow booths forming an open square. In one booth free oils and modeling clay tempted visitors to test their talent. In another a fortune teller revealed if they had any to test...
...three years ago in Pomona, Calif., a Czecho-Slovak butcher named William Dubil lugged a bottom round of beef from his refrigerator, found that someone had stored it too near the freezing coils. It was granite-hard. Sure that the piece was spoiled, would blacken as it thawed, rueful Dubil put it on a slicing machine, turned out a stack of paper-thin slices. He put them in the display refrigerator just to see what would happen...
DEATH DINES OUT-Theodora Du Bois -Houghton Mifflin ($2). Among a number of nice people summering at Jones Inlet near New York City, a surgeon-sleuth ferrets out a killer who uses poison at a dinner party. Merit: pleasant, painless and gossipy dialogue. Fault: a little too much dialogue about ladies' clothing...