Word: station
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Manager J. B. Fyffe announced yesterday that the first trip of the Freshman Glee Club will take place this spring when the club goes to Springfield on April 13, in order to broadcast over the radio at Station WBZ. This will mark the formal opening of a very promising season for the Freshmen...
...some time she had been missing various articles: pins, rings, linen, gold chains, diamond chains, bracelets, antique combs. When her maid Anna Bernhardt, aged 23, last week gave notice, Mrs. Harrison became suspicious. She called in the police. Detectives Gallagher and Murtha strolled over from the East 104th Police Station (her apartment is at 1160 Fifth Ave., the corner of 97th St.). They searched the maid's room and found the missing articles. In court Miss Bernhardt wept on her mistress' shoulder, asked for a chance to prove that she was innocent. Mrs. Harrison relented and asked Magistrate McKiniry...
Outside the station a sleek limousine belonging to the Roumanian Embassy waited. Into it stepped Mme. Lupescu, whose toque was brown. Into it stepped Carol, "whose princely Adam's Apple bounced up and down on his long scrawny neck," according to the now frankly vexed pressmen...
...note was a copy of one which the Detroit Chief of Police had received that morning, scrawled in illegible Italian on a piece of brown paper. Policemen had met him at the station. Detectives, ranked around him, had escorted him to his hotel. Now they watched him curiously as he sat reading the epistle that might be his death warrant. He crumpled it in his pudgy fist...
...years later he was admitted to the Illinois bar, returning to Washington in 1881 at the request of President Garfield who asked him to be Secretary of War. Waiting one day at a railway station, he witnessed a second presidential assassination as Garfield left the train. President Arthur retained him alone of Garfield's secretaries...