Word: shores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quiescent following the death of his wife last May (TIME, June 6). He, too, suffers from a heart ailment. Although he did take himself to Joseph Early Widener's "millionaire dinner" last month (TIME, Oct. 24) he spends most of his time aboard the Lyndonia, much of his shore time at the Downtown Club, which he helped to found, in his own Philadelphia Public Ledger building. Such small time as Publisher Curtis has for business, he gives to the Curtis-Martin newspapers (Ledgers, Inquirer, New York Evening Post) of which his stepdaughter's husband, dapper John Charles Martin...
...firm's expense. The transportation costs between $30 and $60 depending on weight, is slightly cheaper than the cost of driving the truck over highways. This service was hailed as "the first move of the western steam railroads to cooperate with trucking companies." Several months ago Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee (electric) offered similar service...
...expedition: "After about 15 minutes we found their tracks. We followed them for 30 minutes or so through heavy woods and underbrush and then lost them. We looked around a while but couldn't pick up the trail. I told Wise I would go over to the shore to see if the boat was nearby. As I reached a wooded patch near the shore I suddenly found that I was between two lions. I yelled for Wise. He came and shot them. The second one was crouching . . . when Wise shot. It seemed to be excited...
...Ohio, gave his Democratic critics a strong tongue-lashing at Cleveland, marched back to Washington all within 27 hours. His first speech fortnight ago at Des Moines had been temperately warm in its condemnation of his opponents and their political tactics. Speech No. 2 by Lake Erie's shore boiled and bubbled with hot personal indignation. President Hoover believes that Governor Roosevelt & henchmen are trying to steal the presidency from him with lies about his past and misrepresentations about his present. Radio listeners who heard only the Hoover voice imagined him flushed and fighting mad. The President...
...Fordham, then West Point and Annapolis. Finally he founds a Carnarsie University, acquires competent coaches, converts his stable of plug-uglies and wrestlers into a terrifying football team. After a season of phenomenal success. McGloin accepts a post-season game against an obscure team called Lake Shore University. Soon after the contest starts, McGloin realizes what has happened: Lake Shore University is backed by a Chicago gang as shameless as his own. The game becomes an armageddon in which machine guns rattle, bombs are thrown, punts shot down. Presently no one much is left except the appalled press agent...