Word: spedding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three weeks ago two veiled women, wife and daughter of Bolivia's ousted German army builder General Hans Kundt (TIME, July 7), sped under escort provided by German diplomacy through pointing, jeering crowds in the streets of La Paz. Leaving behind them the General, with cries for his head still ringing in their ears, they fled by motor to the Peruvian border and safety. The General too escaped and is now said to be making for Hamburg. Last week Frau Gertrude Kundt and Fraülein Renate arrived in Manhattan. Said they: ''It [Bolivia] is a terrible...
...storybooks are full of such things. The she-bear picked up the child in her mouth. When he cried out and the parents came running, the bear loped away, carrying the child until she came to an open field near a railroad crossing where, alarmed, she dropped her burden, sped away. The child was badly bitten but expected to live...
...Camp Zakelo to look further into Lassman's death. Facts now known: Lassman's canoe, containing himself and three boys, upset one afternoon on Long Lake. He placed two of the boys on the overturned boat, brought the third within reach of another canoe which had sped to the rescue. Then, exhausted, Lassman sank. The three boys were taken ashore, kept silent...
...limousine of Princess Giovanna, 22-year-old daughter of Italy's King Vittorio Emanuele III, stopped where one Dante Morani, artilleryman, had fallen from his horse and lay bleeding in the road. The princess got out, bound up Morani's wounds, sped him to a hospital...
...competent to write music which will be comparable to the text. . . ." In spite of his distrust of and distaste for jazz he admitted there will probably be such themes and variations in his treatment of O'Neill's coalhole drama. San Mateo. Meanwhile towards California sped Willem van Hoogstraten who had conducted with varying success through the first 21 days of the Manhattan Stadium's eight weeks. In the Woodland Theatre at Hillsborough he will be the fourth guest conductor of San Mateo's summer series, given under the aegis of California's Fleishhackers, Crockers...