Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Afflatus Gandhi came two days before to Lucknow with Pandit Motilal Nehru in order that the latter might have x-ray treatment. He died of a lingering illness, aggravated (many of his friends maintain) by repeated British doses of imprisonment...
...Last week the reconditioned Miss England II carried Racer Kaye Don 100 m. p. h. on Lough Neagh, Ireland, in a trial preparatory to attempting the world's record at Buenos Aires before the Prince of Wales. The sea-flea (outboard hydroplane) record: 50.9 m. p. h., by Ray Pregenzer of Antioch...
...Hurst has taken care, as is her custom, to have a letter-perfect local nomenclature- Alms & Doepke, Shillito's, Pogue's, Rook-wood Pottery, Eden Park, Avondale. Her story starts in the '90s, when "Over the Rhine" boasted many a beer-garden and German delicatessen dish. Ray Schmidt was good-looking, a blonde whom drummers, even happily married, invariably tried to lure into sin. Everyone liked her and thought the worst. In a day when beer was plentiful and automobiles a stock joke, her wasp-waisted, full-bosomed, generously rounded figure tantalized the males she met. More...
...Miami- which Capone promptly denied (TIME, July 28). But his friends insist that Capone talked as reported, with the stipulation that he would deny it to save his own face. Other Brundidge exploits: expose of the Midwest medical ''diploma mill" scandals of 1924; conviction in 1925 of Ray Renard ("The Fox") of the notorious Egan gang and the solution thereby of 22 murders. Also in 1925 he got a job as deckhand on a rumship plying between New Orleans and Havana, wrote thereafter a series of articles on liquor smuggling...
...infantry column, fed up with years of war, is not impressed by news of the Armistice. Languidly they cry "Oo-ray," go on singing their mournful songs...