Word: opener
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Catcher Berth Open...
...Greene was returning to her car. parked on one of the main residence streets of Greensboro, about 7 o'clock Saturday evening. Jan. 15. She entered her car. started her motor and was alarmed when she heard the back door open. She turned and saw a young Negro entering her car, holding a pistol on her. "Take me home." he ordered. The Negro had been drinking. Mrs. Greene offered him her purse and the car if he would just let her out. "That's not what I want," was his reply. With the pistol held to the back...
Members of the staff of New York's District Attorney Thomas Edmund Dewey, who is gradually emerging into national prominence as a righteous combination of St. George and Charlie Chan, at 3 one morning last week rapped on the door of a shabby apartment in West Philadelphia. "Open up," they said, "this...
...been the chief accomplice in uniting a German Field Marshal with the daughter of a masseuse. According to best-posted Berlin sources, the canny German generals used what they thought was their advantage over the crestfallen Fiihrer-who maintained that he had been "duped" by Bridegroom von Blomberg-to open a blunt discussion of the many points on which Army leaders have long differed with the Nazis...
...Philippines there are few native women who have the urge to play golf. When, last week at Manila, a bevy of ladies were primping and practicing for the first round of the women's open golf championship, there were many Americans and Europeans, only one Filipina. She was a washerwoman. Strong-armed Dominga Capati, who learned the game when she made friends with a caddy near her employer's estate, was not at all abashed by her classy opponents. The field was strong but she was stronger. With lusty drives and delicate putts, Dominga Capati gave the whole...