Word: offs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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1) Lack of food (no eggs, milk, buttered bread, fresh meat); 2) Heat; 3) Despair growing out of the Baumes Laws, with long terms, reduced paroles, no time off for good behavior; 4) Bedbugs, lice, insanitary plumbing; 5) Overcrowding in cell blocks; 6) Petty graft by low-paid guards; 7...
¶ At the Scottish camp Edward of Wales lit his pipe, threw the match on the ground. Canny, a young Scot picked it up, auctioned it off for five shillings ($1.20).
"Everything went perfectly," beamed Surgeon Marion when the exploring was over. As the anesthetic wore off and M. Poincarè regained consciousness he appeared to think first and only of work. Certain reports had had to be left unfinished when illness obliged him to resign the Prime Ministry. As soon as...
Died. Major Frank Brian Frederic Bibby, 36, of Sansaw, Shrewsbury, England, chairman of Bibby Steamship Line (England to India); off Loch Leven, Scotland, on his yacht.
It was at that point that something happened, something perhaps internationally significant. Polo is usually a game of brilliant individuals. The young Old Aikens rely on perfect team-play. Riding into the fifth chukker against the Greentrees they opened a team attack of such dash and precision that they scored...