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Limping into a Mineola, N. Y. courtroom, plump, deaf Gertrude Ederle, celebrated English Channel swimmer (1926), opened suit for $50,000 damages against the Justine Apartments, where she claims she slipped on a loose stair tile in 1933, suffering a permanent spinal injury which has kept her invalid ever since...
...jailbird in drab prison garb only five months ago was Spanish Minister of Labor Juan Lluhi (pronounced Zhoo-i). By last week Madrid elevators had not run for two months and stair-climbers were getting ugly. Abruptly Señor Lluhi settled the elevator operators' strike, by having the elevator owners seized and jailed until they yielded to the operators' demands for higher...
...dignity of Duke of Addis Ababa. It was time for the rumors that at heart Marshal Badoglio was anti-Fascist to be scotched last week, and scotched they were. Amid regal pomp the Duke of Addis Ababa drove to the Secretariat of the Fascist Party, majestically ascended its marble stair and received a card enrolling him as a member of the Fascist Party. Grizzled new Member Badoglio then barked a loud, soldierly speech in praise of Fascist works in general and in particular of Benito Mussolini, "the Duce who is the force and guide behind all our efforts...
...clothes on. However, she promised to be naked when she landed at Newark Airport. When the plane arrived there, the Newark vice squad was on hand and Miss Cubitt remained clothed. Nevertheless, once safe in her Manhattan hotel. Nudist Cubitt fully compensated cameramen by posing mother-naked on a stair-rail, exhibiting herself nude in a bathtub full of floating oranges. By this time, her fellow nudists back in San Diego agreed that Tanya Cubitt had "done most for nudism.'' elected her U. S. Queen of the Nudists. Doing still more for nudism. Miss Cubitt granted the following...
...this senseless waste of money." Free Press workers make a big thing of Eddie Guest's camaraderie and intimacy with the staff. He still has a desk in the office and, according to office gossip, will probably run the paper some day when aging Owner Edward Douglas Stair retires, His own success still bewilders him a little. Modestly says he: "I do the same kind of jingles that James Whitcomb Riley used o write. ... All he tried to do was to be sincere. . . . The only thing I contributed was a little time which I gambled when I came home...