Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...junction of Cherry Creek and the South Platte was a natural trail head to the Pike's Peak country. While eager immigrants pressed through to the golden mountains, more & more tarried in Denver, settled there, fought the Cheyennes, Arapahoes, grasshoppers and one another. Saloons were paramount from the first, each with a "fighting ring" to accommodate customers. Rare was a day without a shooting and a spot on the east bank of Cherry Creek became the traditional duelling ground. But new Denverites kept arriving by wagon train and it was a long way back. The nearest rail head...
...coast-to-coast traffic through Denver, but until it does the city remains at a random spot on the broad bench east of the Continental Divide. The foothills begin ten miles west, the plains region stretches east to the Missouri River. Sixty miles to the south is Pike's Peak, a truncated cone up whose flanks automobiles race every Labor Day. Isolation is a blessing to Denver now that it is grown up. It is dominant and self-sufficient in a vast area, 555 miles from Salt Lake City...
...would be rash," said the austere London Economist last week, "to predict that America is within sight of general economic recovery, for . . . the forces bearing her down are almost as ineluctable as those which . . . forced her to the peak of prosperity. Nevertheless, there is reason to think the Giant of the West has passed the crisis in his sickness...
...dead ones had sued the Cleveland Clinic Foundation for a total of more than $1,500,000. About 200 dependents, widows, widowers, and children were represented. Neither the Cleveland Clinic nor Surgeon Crile had so much money to disburse. Dr. Crile's personal fortune at its peak approximated $2,000,000. Last week it was reputed to be closer to $100,000. The fortune of Mrs. Crile's family, the Cleveland McBrides, has also shrunk. McBride money was largely in textile enterprises...
...summer is a suitable time for blood & thunder. Detective stories, which normally sell better than any other form of fiction, reach their sales peak in August. Less extraordinary than The Conjure-Man Dies but still appealing, appalling is Dead Hands Reaching in which Dallas Gantry returns to her small-town home of Willow Valley and finds it seething with murder. Her husband, Jurden Keye, is the meanest man in town. He gets the knife before anyone else in town but he is dead by that time anyway. A bullet killed him. A strumpet who thinks Dallas did it is murdered...