Word: priore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...James W. Montee, 64, of Los Angeles, "oldest commercial pilot in the U. S." Not until his 60th birthday did he make his first solo flight, but for six years prior he had ridden in planes over California to point out that great state's scenic wonders to tourists. His three sons are commercial pilots, one of them having won a transcontinental race in a plane built entirely by his parent...
...bootlegger; and the audience wonders why the wife of "The Governor of the State" pleads for a pardon on the grounds that the hero is "more sinned against than sinning." Act II: Cut back to the murder in a sprightly milieu of harlots and bootleggers like that in a prior hit, Broadway* (TIME, Sept. 27). Act III: So the bootlegger murdered by the hero was his f-th-r . . . and the Governor's wife was his m-th-r. . . . Shissh, Shussh! Off with the noose. A neatly meshed plot running smoothly with hokum in all the grease cups...
...MARGARET PRIOR Los Angeles, Calif...
...Lifting the cooler lid, she was startled by a puff of smoke. None of the 70 pupils had taken a drink yet that morning, so none was poisoned by what authorities judged to be sulphuric acid dumped into the cooler by the same malcontent or malcontents who two days prior had smashed the school window panes and electric lights. Between Fundamentalists and Evolutionists of that countryside, suspicion was mutual...
Fifteen novice Freshman crews rowed on the Charles for the first time yesterday afternoon. Prior to going on the water, each eight received a final ten minutes of instruction on the machines from Coach Haines. In the boats the men were under the tutelage of W. E. Beer, Jr. '26, D. C. Gates '26, and J. B. Keogh '25, Coach Haines' newly appointed assistants...