Word: searchings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other agents and agencies in the search for Col. Lindbergh's kidnapped child seemed no closer to success than they were on the windy night of March 1, when the baby was snatched from his New Jersey nursery. But in Washington last week another fantastic sideshow in the case was revealed. Principal in this show was a bad actor who first came to fame in the Harding era - Gaston Bullock Means...
...Bengo Sprouse finds out, tells his brother Willis, who is a deputy sheriff, and who has been making up to Sarah himself. When, after the Legislature has turned down the Indian claim, Luther takes the train home, Bengo and Willis waylay him at a lonely station, handcuff him, search him for Sarah's letters. A minute later...
...search of music, ... a certain warmth of welcome, and museums with clean pictures, in all of which France is poor," four intelligentsiacs last summer deserted Paris to tour central Europe in an automobile. Novelist Wescott was along and, like a good intelligentsiac, kept his head rambling with the car. As the landscape from Paris to Bamberg flits before his eyes, thoughts on literature, religion, mankind-in-general flit behind. These he sets down deferentially "in fear and trembling" at generalizing on such knotty themes...
Beyond the veils of psychological difficulties, of men less seeking to satisfy desire than in search of desire to satisfy, Author Wescott catches glimpses of economic difficulties now & then. With so much trouble dead ahead, one looks for less complaint, more cure. But the only cure offered is the one proposed by Tolstoy's peasant, who, when Tolstoy interrupted his plowing to ask him what he would do if he knew that the world was next day coming to an end, scratched his head and answered, "I would plow...
...Eastern Europe it is not unusual for packs of hungry wolves to invade towns in search of food, a fact which frequently provides U. S. newspapers with exciting items. Last week in the most thickly populated part of the U. S. occurred the following incidents: 1) In Brooklyn a bear wandered away from Richard Herrold's pet shop, entered a nearby house and rifled a refrigerator, frightening a Mrs Christine Schubert and her 13-year-old son Emil. 2) In Manhattan a pet fox bit Policeman Henry A Bosel. 3) In Washington, D. C., Congressman Fiorello ( "Little Flower") Henry...