Word: takers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...France there is only one current guillotine knife, although there are many scaffolds. Therefore M. de Paris has to travel, sometimes to Marseilles to decapitate a taker of virginities, sometimes to Rouen to speed a parting fratricide. He is a traveling salesman of Death. His salary until last week was a paltry...
Married. Mrs. Helen L. Howerton, mother of Major Mite, 18-year-old Ringling-Barnum midget; to Robert H. Crawford, Ringling-Barnum ticket-taker; in Boston...
...able to sleep the next, and the only thing that will break the vicious circle is a sedative drug. . . . Morphine is a good pain reliever, but a poor sleep maker. . . . The newer synthetics [drugs] have no relation to morphine; they have none of that kick that makes the taker wish to repeat the experience. . . ."?Walter C. Alvarez of Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn...
Dennis Enright, care-taker par excellence of the Soldiers Field turf, has prepared a new diamond for the Second team, while it is expected that several diamonds on the old Freshman football field will be available to the class squads. The expansion of class baseball will be carried out much as it was in the case of football last fall, although the class champions will not meet a championship class team from Yale this year. Next year a still further broadening of the scope of the class athletics will take place when new fields, across the street from Soldiers Field...
...policeman's eyes grew wide with alarm. Even the impeccable cravat and faultless morning clothes of Lord Lloyd did not dispel the Fascist's intuitive feeling that anyone who asked the whereabouts of Il Duce's villa must want to murder him. No taker of chances, the con stable arrested the British dictator of Egypt, hurried him to a police station...