Word: repeating
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night about three weeks ago Dr. Isaac Dee Kelley Jr., an ear, nose and throat specialist of high standing professionally and socially, was called to the telephone of his home in St. Louis. His wife heard him repeat the details of a hurry-call for his services; then Dr. Kelley drove away in his car. He did not return that night, nor the next day. . . . Soon St. Louis papers blared their favorite, almost their stereotyped headline: Kid-napped? It was St. Louis' 13th kidnap case in 16 months; and, as in the case of 13-year-old Adolphus Busch Orthwein...
Harvard's Stadium will be the Mecca of track fans today and tomorrow when 133 Crimson athletes, University and Freshman, will seek to repeat last year's victory in the second annual. Greater Boston Intercollegiate track and field meet, competing against M. I. T. with 82 entries; B. C., with 72; Northeastern with 64; B. U. with 53, and Tufts with 45. Trials today are set for 3 o'clock, with the finals in 29 events tomorrow at 2.30 o'clock...
...music. Nevertheless when his operetta Lucille was given a recent amateur performance (no better, no worse than average) by St. John's students, the tunes were such hits that the first-night audience stayed applauding for 15 minutes after the final curtain. Last week it was decided to repeat Lucille, twice in Brooklyn (April 24 and 25), once in Germantown, Pa. (May 13) where Professor Walsh used to live; once in Atlantic City...
...bridegroom, Le Roi fixed his thoughts last week on 1809. In that year, in this same Cathedral of Palermo, his ancestor Louis Philippe (then an exile like the Count of Paris today) married a Bourbon Princess and later became King of France (1830-48). Does history never repeat...
...Cromwell, international corporation lawyer, everyone knows. He negotiated the transfer of rights for a Panama Canal from French investors to the U. S. Government. He was one of the organizers of U. S. Steel Corp. He reorganized many a great U. S. corporation and put them, he likes to repeat, ''all on a paying basis...