Word: portland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Citizens of Portland, Ore., flocked to see a curious creature publicly exhibited by one Arthur Kingery of Wapato, Wash., who said he had captured it in his chicken-yard. It was a cat, thrice the size of a house cat, with a tail heavy and furry, like a coyote's. On each side of its spine, beginning just back of the shoulders, grew a pair of muscular ridges, for all the world like two pairs of rudimentary wings, furred heavily. The feline's hind feet measured five inches, spreading out like the feet of a snow-shoe rabbit...
Tough are the jaws of a rock crusher. They can masticate almost anything. Last week in Portland, Ore., they chewed up bottles containing $16,000 worth of liquor and roared contentedly as the stimulating fluid oozed forth. The whiskey, seized by the Government three years ago, had been the subject of a prolonged, legal fight. In the hour of triumph, the Women's Christian Temperance Union demanded a public doom for "the goods...
Died. Hiram Abrams, 48, President of the United Artists Corp. (cinema); in Manhattan, of heart disease. He began life in Portland, Me., as newsboy; became first president of Paramount Pictures; headed United Artists, which organization Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbank, Charles Chaplin, D. W. Griffith helped him form...
Last week it was presented by the American Grand Opera Company of Portland, Ore. Indian melodies, descriptive of Indian daily life and ceremonies, had been woven subtly into a rich orchestral background, made into a graceful romantic design simple as the story itself. Although it had no special thematic development, critics acknowledged, praised Composer Bimboni for his able conducting, for his score singularly free from monotony...
...until the great Dukes of Marlborough and Portland incorporated their estates recently, did the peerage consider this practice purged of all ignoble taint. Since then estate incorporations have become decorously numerous...