Word: tins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Ralph Pulitzer, 49, president and editor of the New York World; and Margaret Leech, novelist (The Back of the Book, Tin Wedding); in Manhattan...
Died. Frank McDowell Leavitt, 72, inventor, 25 years ago, of the machine that makes tin cans, inventor of the Bliss-Leavitt torpedo used by the U. S. Navy since 1918; of heart disease; at Scarsdale...
William B. Leeds, tin-plate tycoon, hopped into his $75,000 speedboat, Fan Tail, with famed Actress Adele Astaire (Funny Face). Giving the crank a swift turn, he caused the gasoline seepage to burst into a fan of flame. The actress, her dress ablaze, fell to the floor. Leeds grabbed her, lugged her to the dock; then he pushed the Fan Tail into the harbor where it soon exploded and sank. On the; dock watching this performance was Mrs. William B. Leeds, onetime Princess Xenia of Greece, and Fred Astaire, brother to Adele. With their help, William B. Leeds, though...
...front cover} As intrinsic to the Fourth of July as the red crackers sputtering under tin cans in millions of back yards or the blazing sun which, always a little sultry as if stained with gunpowder, wheels over the continent, is the tradition which dictates that the baseball teams which lead the two major leagues on that day will finish in the same order when the season is over. Generally the tradition works out. Last year it was the Pirates in the National League, the Yankees in the American. This year it is the Cardinals and the Yankees. Critics...
...leaders are holding back this asset to spring after Houston has nominated Al Smith. Or maybe Mr. Hoover will retire to the country side to take a few secret lessons from the champion fly-caster of the world. There is even a possibility that the bent pin and the tin can of worms may be called into play at the strategical moment to swing the farmers into line...