Word: tiring
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Four crooks drove up to the Crookston, Minn. county jail one early morning last week, alighted from their delivery truck. Skillfully they slugged the night jailer, then the day jailer, then the day jailer's visiting friend, locked them up with tire tape on their eyes and mouths. Then the raiders looked about for loot. First they chose the things they liked best, several bottles of confiscated liquor. Next they chose the things which they needed most: 8500 from the safe, rifles, pistols, a machine-gun, 500 rounds of ammunition. Then they chose the things which would be most...
...strong southeast wind, 16 swollen gas bags floated up from Basle, Switzerland, one day last week. It was the 21st James Gordon Bennett International Balloon Race. Favorite teams were led by Belgium's Ernest de Muyter, four-time winner of Bennett races, and Ward Tunte Van Orman, Goodyear Tire & Rubber aeronautical engineers, also a fourtime winner. But last to come to earth was the U. S. Navy's entry, piloted by Lieuts. Thomas G. W. Settle and Wilfred Bushnell, winners of last year's U. S. meet. After 40 hr. in the air they were forced down...
Married. Leonard Kimball Firestone. Princeton polo-player, third son of Tire Tycoon Harvey Samuel Firestone; and Polly Curtis, Manhattan socialite; in Manhattan...
...Promiscuity implies that attraction is not necessary. ... I may lay my eyes on a man and have an affaire with him the next hour. . . . "I am serious about marriage - too serious to indulge in it. ... I know that once I get a thing - or a man - I'll tire of it and of him. . . . "I go to the movies. Garbo is a very great genius. I'm mad about her. And I'm not, as a rule, "very fond of women. . . . "If there's anything the matter with me now, it's certainly not Hollywood...
When they came out to the court again after the rest, no one would have been much surprised to see Borotra tire or to see Vines's strokes begin to flash and sparkle as they had at Wimbledon. Borotra won the first game on his own. serve. The match stopped while policemen interrupted a fight in the grandstand. Vines won three games. Borotra won them back. Serving at 4-5, Vines slammed his cannonball into the court but the clay made it bounce slowly. At match point, he netted a drive and ran up to the net to shake...