Word: ranging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philadelphia two rival suitors of Miss Anne Brancato set out to make her the first Democratic woman Legislator from that city. One suitor sent his chauffeur campaigning. The other rang doorbells. Miss Brancato was elected...
Bell In Seattle, investigating a subscriber's report that her telephone bell never rang but that she had learned to answer the telephone when her dog howled in the back yard, Telephone Repairman Roy Handley found the dog chained to the lead-in wires, causing a short circuit which shocked the dog whenever the number was called...
...crowd of 200 stood around the monument in Manhattan's Columbus Circle, waiting for the Columbus Day ceremonies to begin. Just as someone was about to start the speechmaking, shots rang out a few blocks away. Reporters and cameramen raced toward the sound. They found a badly wounded holdupman who had tried to rob a store; an hysterical girl who had helped him; a dozen policemen...
...Good Earth (by Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, Owen & Donald Davis; Theatre Guild, producer). Readers of Mrs. Buck's homely Pulitzer Prizewinning melodrama of Chinese life, now in its 23rd edition, will find the Guild's adaptation, which rang up the curtain on its 15th season, a brief paraphrase of the novel. Wang Lung, the hardy farmer, as greedy for more land as the soil is greedy for sun and rain, does not die at the conclusion as he does in the book. And he has not three sons given him by OLan, the big-boned...
Other anti-Machadoans were not so lucky. Fifteen minutes after Dr. Dolz had been shot at, somebody rang the doorbell at the home of the three de Andrade brothers. It was answered by their Hungarian butler. Three pro-Machado bravos pushed him aside, dashed upstairs, murdered Brother Gonzalo Freyre de Andrade, Representative; Brother Guillermo, attorney; and Brother Leopoldo, engineer. Their bodies were found in a Country Club Park ditch...