Word: prior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year-old stockbroker, to announce that he had been freed by kidnappers who had held him 17 days in a New York apartment. A few hours earlier a black bag containing $50,000 had mysteriously disappeared from the check room of a hotel near Broadway. Kidnappee Rosenthal, who prior to his disappearance had lost heavily on the stockmarket, said he had been dragged out of a taxicab by three men, later said a beautiful brunette had delivered him into the hands of his abductors. Negotiations were carried on in the personal columns of the New York Times. The kidnappers...
...chapel not far from the spot where a few months prior he had laid the cornerstone of a $600,000 men's dormitory. Owen D. Young, president of the St. Lawrence University corporation, bestowed degrees on 25 graduates of the summer school, including his affianced son, Philip, last week. Partly because he attended St. Lawrence, partly also because he had in mind some more of his occasional observations on the spirit and needs of his day, Mr. Young accompanied the degrees with a speech in which he was obviously at pains to get away from the standard thing...
When Counsel Seabury heard of this he angrily accused the opposition lawyers of "trickery and deceit," announced that Dr. Doyle was being protected "by tactics of the Tweed Ring." Meantime, Counsel Seabury learned of a certain telephone call which had been put through to Lake Placid a few hours prior to Justice Sherman's order, a call from the Manhattan apartment of Tammany's crafty Boss Curry. When news of this got out Manhattan newspapers pictured a worried Tammany with its back against a closed door from behind which came the querulous voice of Horse Doctor Doyle saying...
...down upon the gravel beach at Pevensey Bay, England, tipped up on end, flopped back on its haunches and rested. Out of the cockpit crawled a haggard Scotsman, one James A. Mollison, 25, to respond fully to the questions of an excited little crowd. Eight days and 21 hrs. prior he had left Australia, 10,000 mi. away. Every day he had forced his small plane along to the limit of his own endurance, sleeping an average of two hours each night. Night before he had taken off from Rome into a dirty sky, floundered through fog and storm over...
...game, in which his team made no errors, against the Boston Red Sox, in Washington, 5 to o. C. St. Brideaux, three-year-old race horse owned by Mrs. Payne Whitney: the Saratoga Handicap, feature at the opening of the Saratoga Springs, N. Y., race meeting. Two days prior, a violent wind, rain and thunder storm had carried away the roofs of two stables, part of the roof of Saratoga's Grand Union Hotel, felled hundreds of trees one of which came down on an auto belonging to George H. Bull, president of the Saratoga Association. ¶Temperamental, towheaded...