Word: porches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oklahoma City, rich Oilman Charles F. Urschel, whom gunmen snatched from a family card game on his own front porch, turned up after nine days captivity. His family admittedly paid ransom, kept silence for eight hours to let the kidnappers get away...
...Oklahoma City, Oilmen Charles F. Urschel and Walter R. Jarrett were playing bridge on a porch with their wives when two black-haired bandits sneaked up with a machine gun. "Don't move or well blow your heads off!" cried one. "Which is Urschel?" No one answered. "Well, come along, we'll take both of you," he said. An hour later the kidnappers dumped Jarrett, unscathed, out of their car ten miles from town, sped away with Urschel. Mrs. Urschel, rich widow of the late Thomas B. Slick, "king of oil wildcatters" whose fortune once exceeded...
...innovation of the last 90 years, for previous to that it was hidden by a massive iron portico of indescribable ugliness. The rabbit warrens in the cellars of this building which minor University officials call their offices owe all their sunlight and air to the removal of this porch. In the middle of the last century this basement was the College Commons, and here a caterer served meals at $2 a week, a practice which gave the cellar the name of "Starvation Hollow." Parenthetically one might say here that the motivation behind almost every important item in the early history...
...around the world in his own plane. When he got back, in May 1932, he and Libby Holman Reynolds announced their marriage in Manhattan. On July 6, at "Reynolda," Smith Reynolds and his wife gave a party, during which Smith Reynolds was found in an upstairs sleeping porch shot to death by person or persons unknown...
...prints ... of Borzage version of A Farewell to Arms but do not send her." Central Park (First National). Written by a New York Sun theatrical reporter, Ward Morehouse. this picture exhibits Manhattan's largest pleasance. not as an outdoor nursery for perambulated babies, a sleeping porch for the tenement district and a cyuosure for sightseers, but as a battlefield of crime and bestiality, a sink of dissipation. The picture starts with a theft of hotdogs by two hungry, penniless young lovers. A pair of racketeers pretending to be detectives whisk the girl (Joan Blondell) away to the Central Park...