Word: summonsed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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It is Ivy Lee's boast that he never asked an editor to print anything or to suppress anything (except once, when he asked that news of a huge donation to an endowment fund be withheld until other donations rolled in). News bulletins go out not under his name...
There was the southern man who enthusiastically "cooperated" for 100 telegraphed words and concluded by asking a job as guard at the White House. A West Virginia wrecking company sent its somewhat ambiguous "cooperation." And once in a while there is the cheery personal note, heartening to an harassed president...
In Manhattan, Mr. & Mrs. Miller Durs had their two-room bungalow set on wheels, engaged Joseph Schiro, trucking contractor, to tow7 them to Babylon. L. I. They came to a halt in East 58th Street when the driver unhitched his truck, left the bungalow stranded because a patrolman found it...
In St. Louis, the Pine Lawn fire department answered a summons to a blaze on Glen Avenue, discovered the fire to be in a garage owned by a man who had declined to subscribe $1.25 a year to the fire department, silently watched the building burn to the ground.
But buck-toothed Carol was feeling virtuous-having lately become interested in two new mistresses, nobly banished red-haired Jewess Magda Lupescu with a settlement of $120,000, and placated his former wife Princess Helen by agreeing to let their son Prince Mihai, 11, go to an English school. Carol...