Word: short
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stonington, Conn., Monday night. Those who are not acquainted with the missing Senior, are asked to keep a sharp lookout for any person resembling him or acting in a conspicuous manner. Neff's description follows: Age 21. Height 5 ft. 10 in. Weight 165. Medium brown hair, out short. Bluish-grey eyes. Believed to be wearing a single-breasted suit of dark brown or grayish mixture. He is known to have been wearing a hat but no overcoat. No luggage. Those having any information are asked to communicate by phone or wire to J. R. Hamlen, Lehman Hall, Cambridge, Telephone...
...Chief Justice of the U. S. On the platform will be Ohio's professorial little Senator Fess, to sound the whole great convention's keynote. He will be Candidate Hoover's floor manager. In the Ohio delegation, besides patriarchal Representative Theodore Elijah Burton, will be short, rotund Charles W. Seiberling, one of the rubber brothers from Akron. Delegate Seiberling filed his candidacy on the Hoover ticket without knowing that his older brother, Frank A. Seiberling, was running on the opposing Willis slate. Charles W. telephoned Frank A., who was in Florida at the time. "Stick to your...
...Manhattan, a pastor's flock often contains a goodly proportion of black sheep; but on Nebraska's plains, what agile and goatish rams must gambol and run; what wild shy ewes upon its crooked paths! Nonetheless, when the rites of consecration were over, Bishop Rummel made a short, genial speech, then conferred upon his mother, who was still crying while she knelt, his first Bishop's blessing...
Janey's insistence is cut short by the arrival of her Anglo-Saxon swains, who defy all manner of peril and whisk her off in the very plane that brought her. Her ingratitude for their bravery displays itself in scenes and sorrowings, until her hero appears in the night, tracked to her very window by posses of police...
Efrem Zimbalist, famed violinist, sat at the piano while a perky little person stood beside him playing the violin. They played a short concerto; then the little fellow took the applause while the great violinist stood in the background...