Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...never saw much of George, his third guest, although lie had sent him the first invitation. George was one of those easy-going fellows who could get along with anyone. He always had the radio on when he worked so that he was really listening to the radio and not working...
...judge of the Superior Court. . . ." By waiting until then, he made sure that he would choose his successor on the bench. Then from his glassed enclosure on Third Street, he watched Jay Cooke, Philadelphia's G. O. P. chairman, stride majestically along in the inaugural parade, saw pass the proud banner from Philadelphia's 26th Ward: "Home Ward of Late U. S. Senator WILLIAM S. VARE Honoring His True Friend GOV. ARTHUR H. JAMES...
...kating in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden the likes of which New Yorkers had never seen. In 1932 she came again-for the Winter Olympic Games-and regained for a series of charity ice carnival n a dozen U. S. cities. Every pig-ta led girl who saw her swirling in a fairy-like froth of marabou dreamed that some day she might skate like Sonja Henie...
...Chicago harvester clan, has recently been seriously ill with bronchopneumonia. Last week attorneys for Mrs. Olive Randolph Colby, Kansas City widow who is suing him for $2,000,000 (breach of promise), asked that the trial date be advanced. Reason: because of a crowded court calendar, the plaintiff saw "grave danger" that the defendant might not live until the case is reached...
Talkative Kenneth Collins talked himself into an advertising job with R. H. Macy & Co. in 1926 by reciting a list of jobs he had never held. His chief asset was knowing a good thing when he saw it, and two of his good things, Margaret Fishback and Bernice Fitzgibbon, coined the glib slogans for which Macy's soon became famed: "Nature in the Roar," "Babies are Hard to Bear," "It's Smart to be Thrifty." By 1929 Kenneth Collins was an executive vice president of the Manhattan store; for that job his top salary was variously reported...