Word: seated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government's real-life Sherlock Holmes, Sir Bernard Spilsbury, just sensationally foiled in Brighton Trunk Murders No. 1 and No. 2 (TIME, March 4), last week had on his laboratory table two human legs, neatly cut off below the kneecap. They were found last week under the seat of a train arriving at Waterloo Station...
...pronouncement from Southern, not because of its content but because any statement from President Fairfax Harrison is so rare as to be almost historic. A scholarly, aristocratic gentleman of 65, with a name that works magic throughout the South, Mr. Harrison divides his time between his country seat at Belvoir in Virginia's Fauquier County and the Washington headquarters of his road, writes learned treatises on Roman farm management under the pseudonym "A Virginia Farmer." Though he has lately given up reading daily newspapers as a waste of time, President Harrison last week unbent enough to give the Press...
...entrained for Hyde Park and the bosom of his fun-loving family: mother, wife and daughter. Next day he initiated his new son-in-law, John Boettiger in Roosevelt pastimes. In a bright red sleigh with Daughter Anna by his side and Son-in-law John in a single seat behind, President Roosevelt drove for several miles over the snow-packed roads of the Roosevelt estate, to tea at the cottage near the Val-Kill furniture factory...
...midst of his act in a Pittsburgh theatre, Comedian Jimmy ("Schnozzle") Durante pranced off the stage, ran up an aisle, stopped at the seat of Mrs. Evelyn Loether, contractor's wife. Then, according to Mrs. Loether, he "seized her in an indiscreet manner. He made an unlawful, illegal assault upon her. . . . He put his arms around her neck and forced her head against his. He kissed her left cheek, slobbered on her face." Mrs. Loether "cowered in embarrassment" and, two days later, sued for $5,000 damages. Said Comedian Durante: "Aw, it's just one of those things...
Five days later two human legs were found under the seat of a train arriving at Waterloo Station and Scotland Yard was off on a fresh mystery. The Waterloo legs, according to Sir Bernard Spilsbury, are male...