Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charming woman-about-Europe, secret but conscious hostess of innumerable bacteria, leaves behind her a fantastic trail of death & disease...
...December 1923, with a crew of 50, the Dixmude left her base at Cuers-Pierrefou for a 72-hour flight over North Africa. On the third day, near Biskra, a storm struck her, disabled her wireless and motors, blew her across Tunis toward Sicily. Thence the Dixmude's trail sprawled octopus-like with conflicting "eyewitness" reports. First authentic trace occurred nine days later when Sicilian fishermen pulled in with their nets the body of du Plessis de Grenedan, the Dixmude's commander. No other body has been found. But tribesmen have insisted that on the sixth day after...
...University football team may have had its ups and downs but the Harvard Band experienced an unprecedented season, leaving behind it a trail of broken records, according to statistics compried by one of the band members...
...within him by writing fiction, mostly pot boilers. In 1914 he published Our Mr. Wrenn, his first novel. That same year he married Grace Livingstone Hegger, wandered with her from coast to coast, getting newspaper jobs and writing novels in his spare time. During this period he published The Trail of the Hawk, The Job, The Innocents, Free Air. Then he borrowed $500 from his father, retired from other work to a lodging house in Washington, D. C. and wrote Main Street (1920). Its success was immediate; the title phrase and Sinclair Lewis became national bywords. Some 50,000 copies...
...good looks. She was a headliner on the Keith Circuit when she was five, nearly 40 years ago. She went to high school for two years between road-shows. Since the days of her thrillers (Ruth of the Rockies, The Timber Queen, Ruth of the Range, The Tiger's Trail), one of which she wrote and directed herself (The Adventures of Ruth), she has been out of pictures. She built up a real estate business in Los Angeles and made several million dollars, one million of which?as a grand gesture rare in life but common to the rich heroines...