Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philadelphia Bulletin said it was himself. The city editor of the Scranton Times credited a United Press man. Possibly all three, and many another newshawk, swooped at once on the catch-phrase the moment they heard, two months ago. that Robert Allan Edwards, 21, was accused of bashing his pregnant girl over the head in a lake so he could marry his other girl. That was exactly the plot of Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy. The comparison put last week's trial on the front page of practically every newspaper in the land...
...hero the same initials?Clyde Griffith. It was 28 years ago that Chester Gillette, raised in a sternly religious atmosphere, got a job as foreman in a rich relative's collar factory. He took up with a pretty factory girl, Grace Brown, but, by the time she became pregnant, Gillette, socially ambitious, had been taken up by another girl, an "heiress." He took Grace Brown to Big Moose Lake in the Adirondacks, ostensibly to marry her. They went for a boat ride from which Gillette swam to shore alone. Days later Grace Brown's body was dragged from the lake...
Withal possibly the most pregnant phrase since Vol. 1, No. 1. "Goldplated Anarchy!" To whom is credit due for this brilliant...
Returning to the Joliet news item, one justly say that it is one pregnant with interest for every on of the ten thousand sons of Harvard who seek, if not victory, at least stellar competition. Forestalling any possible controversy of the nature that disturbed supporters of Army and Navy football not many years since, the wise and sapient authorities of the J. A. A.have voluntarily adopted the three year eligibility rule for their football players...
...Fortnight ago all five had attacks of intestinal toxemia. Last week all had slight colds, caught apparently from their five older brothers and sisters. There was whooping cough, too, in the neighborhood. And their sturdy mother, who has had nothing to do with their nursing or care, seemed again pregnant...