Word: shoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cochran carpets beat International Harvester that cruise. McCormick bet Cochran that he would meet Walska first. He lost. But when he got back to his Lake Shore home in Chicago it was announced that he and Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick were no longer living together. Alex Cochran and Walska lived briefly together in his Murray Hill home. Then in 1920 divorce proceedings started. Madame Walska, with Dudley Field Malone for her lawyer, issued a statement that ''if he [Cochran] wants to get rid of me he must pay until it hurts for his own good...
From Paradise Cove, scene of many a moonlight picnic on the Marin County shore of San Francisco Bay, six big navy seaplanes taxied out with a mighty roar one noon last week. With their 30 officers & crew they comprised Patrol Squadron 10-F, bound for Honolulu's Pearl Harbor. Except for excited San Franciscans who lined the city's hills to watch the takeoff, there was little commotion over what was to be the longest formation flight ever attempted-2,400 mi. The Navy did not think of it as a remarkable flight but a routine transfer...
From various remarks dropped by the actors, and also by the escort of the deaf lady in the next box, we gathered that the theme of the play was nothing less than the attempt of a god on shore-leave to rob a young dance-hall hostess of her maidenhead. Two other tars, gross fellows all, lay bets upon his enterprise. This plot is a simple one, and it is thematically unvaried throughout. If you are looking for an evening of good 100 per cent American smut, this is it. There's no nastiness in it; the only cloud...
...death of Toronto's Irvin ("Ace") Bailey (TIME, Dec. 25) was peacefully resolved last week in Boston when Bailey was pronounced definitely out of danger. Though he may never again play hockey, he was able to sit up in bed, chat with newshawks, emphatically absolve "Eddie" Shore of the Boston Bruins who had tumbled him upon the ice. Said he: "I didn't see Eddie and he didn't see me and we crashed and that...
Managing Director Frank Patrick of (he National Hockey League set Shore's suspension period at six weeks, expiring Jan. 28. Said he: "Preponderance of testimony is that the contact was accidental." Meanwhile Shore, completely unstrung by the near-tragedy, was presumably in seclusion in the South. He was expected to play his first game Jan. 30 in Boston against the New York Rangers...