Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Monsieur de Paris had pressed the button at more than 400 guillotinings in his 40-year career, died last February, his 80-year-old Uncle Léopold Desfour-neaux was appointed temporary successor. Connoisseurs complained that Desfourneaux lacked his nephew's finesse, at his first execution took ten seconds to Deibler's customary three or four. Last week, after six weeks' cogitation, the prisons director pronounced Uncle Léopold's initial effort a complete success, thus making him France's new official high executioner...
Exuberant "Ronnie" Knox, son of the late Anglican Bishop of Manchester, brother of Editor Edmund George Valpy ("Evoe") Knox of Punch, has been a man of letters since he wrote Latin and Greek epigrams at ten. Brought up an Anglican, he took holy orders soon after leaving Oxford's Balliol College, became Anglican chaplain of Trinity College. Converted to Catholicism before the War, he was ordained priest in 1919. In 1926, the year he became Oxford's chaplain, Father Knox scared England over the radio just as Orson Welles scared the U. S. last autumn: he broadcast...
...Schools' Committee were Mr. & Mrs. William Mann Fincke Jr., who run little Manumit School on a 175-acre farm in the Berkshire foothills at Pawling, N. Y. Aided by scholarship funds from an anonymous philanthropist, Mrs. Fincke, a buxom, vivacious blonde, daughter of famed Feminist Louise Fowler Gignoux, took under her motherly wing six adult refugees (including a German actress who supported herself and daughter in the U. S. by scrubbing floors), 23 children (Gentiles & Jews) of lawyers, bankers, teachers, artists. Last week Mrs. Fincke had some astounding stories to tell of refugees' behavior...
...week three hardheaded, self-made midwesterners were locked in noisy battle for control of the largest building and loan company in the U. S.-the $50,000,000 Pacific States Savings & Loan Co. The three battlers: 1) California's Building & Loan Commissioner Ralph Willard Evans, who fortnight ago took over Pacific States "to conserve and protect the investments of thousands of people"; 2) retired Millionaire Norman Waite Church, who was appointed custodian of the company; 3) ham-fisted Robert Stewart Odell, Pacific States' chief owner...
...living at El Cortez, swank San Francisco apartment hotel, under the name of Mrs. Howell. Last fall she bleached her hair platinum, left for fun in Miami, returned fortnight ago for her final decree from Mechanic Gay. When she got it, she promptly married Mr. Bradstreet, a onetime bartender, took him honeymooning in her yellow Packard...