Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Carlton Curtis, 43, a rich bachelor, was standing at the corner of 54th Street and Broadway, Manhattan, when he saw an automobile bearing down recklessly upon a 17-year-old Negro girl. He snatched her back to safety, found her lithe and vivacious, befriended her. She said her name was Letitia Ernestine Brown. For her he bought a small house in Freeport, L. I., where, she said, he solemnly took her hand, declared himself her husband and her his wife. On her he settled a secret fund of $250,000. About Freeport the two were known...
Finally, however, the script fell into the hands of the London Stage Society, a semiprofessional organization not unlike Manhattan's Theatre Guild but more like Cleveland's Playhouse. The Stagers produced it one Sunday evening at the Arts Theatre, where Maurice Browne, playwright and producer, saw it. A few weeks later he produced it in London's West End. That was in late January. Today Journey's End is London's outstanding success...
Henry Mond and Jenny Lee. Britain's most potent industrialist, Lord Melchett, saw his son, the Hon. Henry Mond, capture a seat for the Conservatives last week, by 3,000 plurality, whereas in 1924 the same seat went to another Conservative by a 9,000 majority. This bad news for Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin was nothing, however, compared to that which he soon heard from North Lanarkshire, Scotland, where an immemorially Conservative seat was being fought for by Lord Scone, son of the Earl of Mansfield, a Scottish grand seignieur. Daring Laborites sent against Lord Scone pretty Miss Jenny...
Hartwell, who had already captured the diving, found no competition in the 200-yard free style, and walked away from his opponents in the fast time of 2 minutes 45 seconds. Second place saw a real struggle, with A. L. Mason '32 barely defeating H. L. Lash '32. The second free style contest, the 50-yard race, was, on the other hand, extremely tight; W. R. Timken '32 nosed out J. E. Ashworth '32 and L. M. Patterson '32, not a yard separating these three. Timken won his second first place of the afternoon in the 100-yard free style...
That destiny she saw at last in the cold blue eyes of Lynn Hamilton, a personable youth who had returned from the outside world to his Ohio farm. Quietly they planned a marriage which Sophie contemplated as a cure to her restlessness. But the black-eyed prodigal, son of the village doctor, thundered past her white bride's house on swift racing horses and lured her. And Sophie, hesitating, wondering, hoping he might have the answer Lynn had failed to give, staggered out to him in the stormy night, escaped with him to the great outside. Yet even...