Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...well-fed gentleman in steel-rimmed spectacles set out from Iowa last autumn to sell blood & death to the U. S. Press. With his brief case full of fire, smoke, steel, mud, gore, torn limbs and burnt flesh he visited nearly every State in the Union, leaving behind a trail of agony and chaos. Last week he rode into Louisville, and before he rode out again he had left his mark on the Courier-Journal-50th newspaper to buy his photographs of the World War. Sweeping on through Washington, Wheeling, Erie, New Haven, he paused in Manhattan to contemplate...
Federal agents, kept off the trail by the pleadings of the elder Bremer, friend of President Roosevelt, began trying to pick up the cooling scent of the abductors. Within eight months, snatchers have made $300,000 out of St. Paul brewing families...
...undergraduates of Harvard who desire to try their skill as skiers in actual competition will have a chance in the University Championship Downhill Race which will be held over the Katzensteig trail behind Glen House at Mount Washington at noon on Sunday, February 25. There will be two classes, the first of which will be open to all members of the Ski Team. The B class will be open to all contestants who are not on the ski squad...
...large group will make the Wapack Trail trip this weekend according to the Peterborugh Recreation Club, who report that conditions are nearly perfect on Temple and the Pack Mountains...
Music was George Cohan's specialty before he took up acting and playwriting. When he was 8, his parents went touring in a melodrama called Daniel Boone on the Trail. "Georgie" was taken along to sell songs in intermission, play second fiddle in the orchestra. "Why Did Nellie Leave Her Home?" was his first song published. He was then 15. Not long after, when he was looking for a job in New York he met a man with a street telescope who gave him a free peek at the stars, told him Venus ruled the show business. Cohan went...