Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ever pretended to be on the same moral plane as a theological seminary. Columnist Westbrook Pegler recalls a pre-War burlesque house on State Street in Chicago where, after the performance, the comedian auctioned off the girls to members of the audience, "who claimed them then and there and took them, still in costume, to the beer hall in the rear. Possibly they married and settled down in the suburbs to raise large families of respectable Americans, but from the way things seemed to be going about midnight that was impossible." Pre-War burlesque, however, was not in the same...
...afternoon last week June Ebdom took the little mare for a workout. They had just started down the bridle path in Flushing's Kissena Park when suddenly Nightingale reared, pawed the air, flopped down in the path. Scared June Ebdom kited back to the stables. "Frenchy" Loudoux sped up just in time to perform a few midwifely duties for Nightingale, before a knot of gaping WPA workers. In three minutes a spindly colt was sprawled on the grass beside her. Rallying quickly, the mare walked to the stables with her foal following in a rumble seat. Loudoux swore that...
...1880s, war-weary Founder Abell began to turn the Sun over to three of his boys. Of these, rotund George William served as president until 1894. Benign Son Edwin Franklin then took over. To needy folk, Son Edwin would give bits of paper with "$10 - E.F.A." scribbled across them. These informal checks were always good for face value with the Sun's cashier. In the 1880's and 90's, the Sun tackled the Maryland Democratic political machine in a running fight...
...special morning performance before a group of Baltimore businessmen who were guests of the Sun management. Before the show they heard an ode composed for the occasion by the Sun's Poet Folger McKinsey ("The Bentztown Bard"). Baltimore buzzed with talk at this stunt and local admen took the hint to increase space in the Sunpapers, as Baltimoreans have always called the two sheets. Mr. Black was drowned in 1930, slipping from the taffrail of his yacht Sabalo off the Jersey coast...
...said I would do whatever the Lord told me. He told me to sell my pigs and goods and give the money to the poor, and I did. Then He called on me to fast, but He didn't say why. The day after I started in, I took a little potato soup without any grease. That learned me my lesson. I nearly died, it made me so sick. That was just the Lord punishing me for my disobedience. . . . I started this fast at the call of the Lord, and I'll not stop until He tells...