Word: shoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their mental state was probably much more settled than Dr. Schumann's for he returned from his Southern trip weary' and worn, complaining to his class about pestering reporters and the fact that he had even been offered $100,000 to display the sextuplets at a nearby shore resort during the next summer season...
...office of the New York Daily News on the night of the Hauptmann verdict; 2) an electric light bulb breaking, milk dropping into a pan, photographed by a camera 150 times faster than the human eye; 3) the crash of the Mohawk and Talisman off the New Jersey shore; 4) the story of Convict Huddie Ledbetter ("Lead Belly") whose Negro songs get him pardoned for murder...
Dashing through the icy upper reaches of the Charles, the first 150 pound crew yesterday hit a monstrous iceberg, and stove a large hole in the boat. Cox Ed Barker steered his craft up to an ice pan, and the crew jumped for shore, only two falling by the wayside...
Prettied up, this is the tale of The Distant Shore. The play is as dull as the crime itself. What interest it has lies in the fact that the murderer is impersonated by Roland Young...
...Distant Shore (by Donald Blackwell & Theodore St. John; Dwight Deere Wiman, producer.) In 1910 a U. S. patent medicine salesman and unlicensed dentist named Hawley Harvey Crippen gave his wife, a music hall wench, an overdose of hyoscine, chopped up her remains, buried them in the coal cellar of their London home. He then took his secretary into the house to live with him, fled to Montreal on the S.S. Montrose when his late wife's friends infected Scotland Yard with their suspicions. The only elements in the Crippen case which might possibly raise it above the low level...