Word: orchard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Arthur Schreiber got across the Atlantic as a stowaway on a French stunt flight from Old Orchard, Me. to Spain. But on commercial airlines the close watch kept on planes at airports makes unauthorized free rides next to impossible. One night last week in Indianapolis, 23-year-old John Henry Hagaman, after bumming his way by hitchhiking and rod-riding over most of North America, thought he would try his luck by air. His mother was in flood-stricken Van Nuys, Calif, and he wanted to get home in a hurry. Slipping aboard a T. W. A. transport during...
Snip, Snip. The terrible crises which have been frequent in the lesser European countries since the War have bred statesmen with tough nerves. On the day Austria was being invaded, out to an orchard went Austrian Nazi Minister of Interior Dr. Seyss-Inquart, incipient Chancellor...
...bird had been sent from the Lilly Orchard Company of Indianapolis, Illinois, by a former member of Leverett, and addressed to "Club 2", B42 Leverett House. The inhabitants of B42 disclaimed all responsibility, but Colonel Apted finally disposed of it by giving it away to Louis Hardy, the present janitor of University Hall...
Since museum authorities were unavailable over the weekend, there has as yet been no definite information as to just what was stolen. Lauriston Ward and Frank Orchard, assistant curators, declared, however, that some of the objects taken were "priceless...
Having showed that he could draw likenesses of living people well, by sketching the face of a man whom he caught in the act of robbing his father's pear orchard, Tom at fourteen was sent off to London to study painting. In four years he was supporting himself. At twenty he fell in love with Margaret Burr, a young lady of confused origin who possessed many charms, including an annuity of $1000. After painting her portrait, he married her and settled in Ipswich...