Word: spedding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opening day Uruguay's picturesque Civil Guard marched glittering through the streets of Montevideo in uniforms dating from the War of Liberation from Spain (1810). Escorted by galloping lancers Dr. Gabriel Terra, heavyset, heavy-jowled President & Dictator, sped to open the Conference at 6 p. m. Alighting from their limousines in a sudden squall of wind and rain, delegates of 21 American nations clutched their silk hats and fled with flapping coattails up the marble steps of Uruguay's Legislative Palace to take refuge from the weather in its high-domed, multi-marbled and scarlet-trimmed Congressional Chamber...
...recoup their loss, but Peden & Letourner stuck to them like lice. The closing gun, at midnight, found Peden & Letourner winners by that single lap and 1.354 points for sprints, to the runner-up's 714 points. Peden & Letourner collected $5,000 of the $30,000 purse. Peden sped on to Cleveland to begin another grind three days later. For the whole meet, 1,064 laps were stolen, a new U. S. record. The victory of Peden & Letourner was less surprising than the complete collapse of the aging "iron man," Reginald James McNamara. Nobody expected McNamara...
...still dusk fortnight ago a small closed car sped along the highway between San Jose, Calif, and San Mateo. Inside were two kidnappers and their victim, Brooke Hart, 22. son of San Jose's wealthiest department store owner. On the San Mateo bridge across a corner of San Francisco Bay, the car stopped. The three men got out. One of them from behind smashed Brooke Hart's skull with a brick. Together they bound his limp body with baling wire, stole his wallet, lifted him over the bridge railing, heaved him into San Francisco...
...police station with his face scratched, all the buttons torn off his vest and a long story. He said that some Frenchmen had struck his mother, kidnapped him, turned him loose. His father, Senator Arthur Charles Hardy of Ontario, heard the news just before his steamer landed at Cherbourg, sped to the rescue with a high-powered French lawyer. Fulford Hardy had been clapped into jail. Mrs. Hardy, not seriously injured, tearfully inquired if he had a comfortable cell, if she might send him his pajamas. Two inspectors hurried out from Paris to take charge of the case and Bonnieres...
...Grounds: cruelty (he threatened to "maim and disfigure" her, called her "terrible names," locked her in the bathroom, paid no bills). Two days later Singer McCormic heard that a hotel hostess named Grace null was in a Los Angeles newspaper office hawking details of the property settlement. Raging, she sped thither, slapped the informant soundly. Prince Serge defended Miss Williams: "She had a perfect right. . . . I have given her the keeping of all my private papers. She is writing my life story." Property settlement: Prince Serge exchanged $15,000 in notes for Singer McCormic's claim to a half...