Word: throughness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In Newark, N. J., Mrs. Frances MacFarquhar, suing for divorce, submitted her diary in evidence. Excerpts: "January 28-Blackened my eye because I bought a fifteen-cent cake and did not turn over the change; March 13-He tripped me and tried to kick me through a window; March 26...
In 1935 an ungrammatical grocer's clerk, Gregory Parent, recounted to Garland some queer doings of his late wife, Violet. Guided by the spirit of a dead Indian named Two Bear, Violet Parent for nine years had led gullible neighbors through cactus, poison oak and 3,000 miles of...
In Manhattan, Housewife Anna Abdou invaded a classroom in Public School 78, an ax in one hand, two iron stove legs in the other, screamed: "I hate kids. I'm going to kill you all." While the teacher tried to calm her, then tried to ignore her, Mrs. Abdou...
As he came out of his shower, dripping wet, Peroy noticed the culprit running out of the room. Without waiting to dress he gave chase through the corridors of the Indoor Athletic Building and shouting for aid succeeded in getting nearby students to continue the pursuit. An officer finally caught...
The Freshmen had crashed through with a walk-away race just before them, which netted the Yardlings a three-length win without a sprint, while the Navy plebes, a Columbia, and an illstarred Penn boat followed in that order.