Word: spared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wreck of the Old 97" was in the courts again and thus last week did Judge J. Warren Davis begin his opinion in the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia. What Judge Davis had to decide was whether or not David Graves George, a spare, hollow-cheeked old hillbilly who still works for the Southern Railroad, had written the version of the "Old 97" sung by Vernon Dalhart on a Victor phonograph record in 1924. Hillbilly George claimed that he wrote the song in 1903, a week after he had helped to pry nine bodies...
...wild-eyed into the Sinaia stationmaster's office where Assassin Constantinescu was held. He whipped out a small revolver and sent two bullets whistling round the prisoner. Bang! Bang! Neither of them took effect. Radu Polizu was disarmed and hustled out of the room. Another bomb, apparently a spare left over from the evening assassination, burst in the station waiting room wounding a small child who stepped on it by accident. The engineer of the funeral train pulled out with a sigh of relief...
...baby. . . ." Lincoln was 55 mi. away over snowed-under roads. Outdoors was -20°. Dr. Berg bundled himself well, started to motor to the case. Thirty miles out of Helena 6-ft. snow drifts blocked his car. He secured a tractor, arrived at the accouchement with 15 minutes to spare...
...supported Woodrow Wilson in 1916 and that same year went to Cheyenne, as city editor of Senator Kendrick's Democratic Cheyenne State Leader. Senator Kendrick took his young editor to Washington, put him to work on speeches and meat packing legislation. But Secretary O'Mahoney found spare time to study law. After three years he went back to Cheyenne to hang out his shingle. In another four years he was directing the Democratic campaign which made Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross (now Director of the U. S. Mint) Wyoming's Governor. Finally, a Democratic Na tional Committeeman...
...tried and condemned to death. He is in the death house at Sing Sing and it is only by pointing a revolver at the real murderer, a gangster who first stole Mrs. Barringer's affections, that Barringer saves his client's life with only 20 seconds to spare...