Word: spinned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...each for the privilege of sitting at the "ring" and trading in silk futures Chief among them, youngest of Manhattan exchange presidents, is 37-year-old Paolino Gerli, scion of a long line of silk importers. His early training took him to Japan, where indifferent silkworms spin out 75% of the world's supply. Now he is vice president of E. Gerli & Co., largest of U. S importers, doing an annual business...
...GENERAL'S RING?Selma Lagerlof ?Doubleday Doran ($2.00). Genius is sometimes dependable. Selma Lagerlof, ripe with the years and their laurels, can still spin a worthy tale of peasant simplicities and spectral horrors. Dreary and revengeful, General Lowenskold's ghost hovered near the priceless ring that had been stolen from his tomb. The unhappy thief suffered?his barns burned down, his wife was drowned?but he dared not confess looting a grave, mortal offense. In time, the jewel of ill wake passed with its spectral guardian through unwitting, but nevertheless harassed, owners to the very descendants of Lowenskold...
Tennessee's McKellar and Tennessee's Tyson had slipped home from the U. S. Senate to be there. Governor Horton and Hill McAllister, his political antagonist spoke, not on politics. No-one thought but of old-time "Uncle Alf" Taylor, who used to spin yarns over 40 years ago, and was still going strong...
After hunting alligators, but getting none, fishing, but catching none, being reported as on the verge of nervous breakdown, but having none, Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh went down for a spin in a submarine. Then bidding good-bye to Panama and his vacation, he put on his goggles and returned to work...
Flying in the face of Providence, and disregarding the combination of Friday the 13th, Boat 13 was the first shell to take the water. Three University eights, one 150-pound boat, and a Freshman crew comprised the fleet that paddled up and down for a brief spin. The seatings of the crews were all chosen entirely by chance...