Word: porches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Horace H. Rackham, a small Detroit lawyer, owed his entire fortune to one lucky step, taken when he was 45. From his front porch in 1903 he could hear a gasoline engine sputtering in the backyard of his neighbor, Henry Ford. Hesitantly Lawyer Rackham mortgaged his property, invested $5,000 in the new Ford Motor Co. In 1919, after receiving $4,000,000 in dividends, he sold out to Henry & Edsel Ford for $12,500,000. Taken aback by his fortune, Lawyer Rackham did his best to ignore it, living modestly, carrying on his practice, shunning publicity. His philanthropic career...
...nearby Catholic cemetery next day, the Senator's doctors ordered five successive blood transfusions, adrenalin injections, an oxygen tent. Toward sunset, when his condition became hopeless, it was arranged that the lights would blink in the sickroom to signify the end to friends and kin on the porch below. At 4 a. m. two mornings after he was shot, Huey Long, breathing heavily, was staring wild-eyed at the canopy above him. At 4 :10 the lights in his room blinked, but he did not see them...
...bring back special wax candles for the birthday cake. Beamed Dr. House: "The whole place seems to me as much like a miracle as possible when we remember what it was when we bought it. I never tire of looking out from our patio or out of our screened porch which looks out directly on the sea. It is all so beautiful, so restful to us old folks...
Said Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in a radio broadcast, of her troubles in keeping the White House: "Pipes will leak at frequent intervals and rats and mice like old buildings, regardless of tradition. Two friends of mine, sitting on the South Porch at breakfast one summer morning, tried to reassure themselves that a squirrel ran across the floor and refused to admit until they were safely upstairs that they had seen a large...
...scissors slid into place across the wires, short-circuiting the whole Scotch Plains system and costing the company a little more of the $100,000. This time, when the police called on John Crempa, they were obliged to retire before a shotgun held by Mrs. Crempa on the front porch, a pistol held by John upstairs. While the police planned a siege, enthusiastic neighbors brought the Crempas food...