Word: speared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disguise. Instead he headed an expedition into unmapped Somaliland. succeeded where five previous attempts had failed in reaching Harar, saved himself by a feat of flattery from being killed. On another expedition into Somaliland, one of his officers was killed, two were badly wounded and Burton got a spear through his cheek...
...search of various Bibles, Bible dictionaries, abridged and unabridged dictionaries, the works of Josephus, The Bible Concordance, etc., I found that Goliath could have been anywhere between 6 ft. 6 in. and 11 ft. 4½ in. tall. His brass breastplate weighed between 156 and 312 lb. His iron spear tip weighed about...
Among the newshawks, photographers, gawkers and sharpers who hurried to the sleepy village of Callander, Ont. at the end of May 1554 was a Chicago promoter named Ivan I. Spear. Three days after the Dionne Quintuplets were born, Papa Oliva Dionne signed a contract with Promoter Spear to exhibit himself, his wife and ten children* at Chicago's World's Fair under the auspices of the Century of Progress Tour Bureau. Net revenues, including photographic rights, were to be divided: Tour Bureau 70%, Papa Dionne 23%, Rev. Daniel Routhier (Papa Dionne's manager) 7%. For signing...
Dionne & Co. were never exhibited at the Fair, because in July 1934 guardians for the Quintuplets were appointed by the Provincial Government.† But Papa & Mama Dionne did go to Chicago for a vaudeville appearance at the gaudy Oriental Theatre, not under Promoter Spear's auspices. While they were in town Promoter Spear sent Lawyer Luis Kutner around to the Congress Hotel to get an affidavit from Papa Dionne. Emphasized were Papa Dionne's reactions to his children's guardians: Lawyer Kutner: What did anybody say if you didn't consent to the appointment? Papa Dionne...
Same day Lawyer Kutner secured this deposition he went into Federal District Court, filed Promoter Spear's suit for $1,000,000 damages against Papa Dionne, Doctor Dafoe, the Quintuplets' guardians and others. Grounds: breaking a contract & conspiring to break it. Twice the suit was dismissed, but a third amended complaint stuck. Last week counsel for Doc tor Dafoe sought to finish the affair once...