Word: thornes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York City, Francis Keyes of North Haverhill, New Hampshire, William Davis Locke of Concord, Deric Nusbaum of Santa Fe, New Mexico, Charles Eliot Pierce of Milton, Edwin Howard Baker Pratt of Glen Cove, New York, Gardner Edward Prouty, Jr., of Littleton, Joseph Foster Robbins of Weston, George Thorn Skinner of North Wales, Pennsylvania, and Robert Stevenson Wolcott of Milton...
...hangar at Roosevelt Field. The name of his plane- Pegasus-is the kind of gesture that is fully understandable only to horse people, people who find, as Jock Whitney does, a rich and serious importance in the thundering field, bunched at the start, narrowing to the first thorn fence at Aintree...
...Empress Theatre (burlesque). He used to tell friends that he was worth $60,000,000. Most Denverites think the correct figure was nearer $10,000,000. Bulk of the fortune was tied up in a family corporation, Boma Investment Co. Bonfils, who had visited Africa, named it for the thorn bomas built by natives "to keep beasts out." The Bonfils will, opened last week, left practically the whole estate (amount unspecified) to "The Fred G. Bonfils Foundation for the Advancement of the Welfare of Mankind...
...holder of a D. S. C., Lord Marley is one of Britain's official war heroes. As chief Labor Party whip in the House of Lords, he is a thorn* in the side of onetime Laborite James Ramsay MacDonald who may soon travel to the U. S. again to dicker debts with Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Last week the debt policy of Scot MacDonald, who has never pretended to have a head for figures, was announced for him by his Chancellor of the Exchequer, arch-Conservative Neville Chamberlain...
...start of the War, Lawrence tried to join an O. T. C. at Oxford, was turned down because there were too many recruits. He got a temporary job in the Geographic Section of the General Staff. Four months later he was sent to Egypt. There, besides making himself a thorn in the flesh of red-taped, uninformed superiors, he did such jobs as edit a handbook of information about the Turkish Army, containing such unsoldierly comments as "General Abd el Mahmoud commanding the ?th Division is half-Albanian by birth and a consumptive; an able officer and a gunnery...