Word: palming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...train rounded a curve near Richmond, lurched, threw her heavily against a window ledge. Her husband summoned a doctor who treated her hastily, told her she could go on. Twenty-four hours later, suffering "from a broken arm and nervous shock. Mrs. Smith bedded herself in a West Palm Beach hospital, stayed there four days...
Died. Katharine I. Harrison, 68, pioneer "highest salaried businesswoman" ($10,000 a year, 30 years ago); of cerebral hemorrhage; in Palm Beach, Fla. Long-time secretary to Henry Huddleston Rogers, she had an encyclopedic knowledge of Standard...
...weak man," says Pioneer Taylor. "I was so shot to pieces during the War that I really have no strength at all. Would you believe that I was able to drive an S. S. from here to Palm Beach in one full day - 1,200 miles? That gives you some idea...
Actress of the Year was Katharine Cornell who, while the memories of Julia Marlowe and Jane Cowl were still green, won the palm of praise for her Juliet...
...starred negotiations. The inexplicable "Jafsie" was able only "partially" to identify Hauptmann when first confronted with him. There is literally no telling what the 74-year-old retired Bronx school-teacher will do when he gets on the stand. Last fortnight he made a mysterious motor trip to West Palm Beach on business "connected with the case." He did the case no good when he told reporters there: "No one saw Hauptmann kill the baby. I don't think they can convict him." The doctor thought, however, that Hauptmann might be proven guilty of extortion...