Word: turned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fascinations, brilliance, high-life systems and customs, bewildering scenery and surroundings, being paired with or alone with strangers at glowing public functions with unlimited flow of every variety of liquor at every turn, with dance halls and drinking tables on the side, richly dressed and sweet-voiced hosts and uniformed waiters repeatedly urging visitors of every age, including . . . girls, to drink-thank God our girls came home unsullied and never will know how near the brink they were. With Governor Dickinson were his adopted granddaughter, Delia Patterson, 25, and his secretary, Margaret Shaw...
Soon there was more work for the Chief Clerk. A Madison Baptist and an Italian Methodist canceled their dates to pray for the Senate. A Lutheran, Rev. Morris Wee, instead of praying when his turn came, ambiguously read a psalm: Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful...
...with his 511 employes. He pays his workers well for an oil & cattle town publisher. Each year his employes have owned more and he less of his publishing properties. (His holdings are now down to 20%.) Only last week he let it be known that next January he would turn management over to some of his old hands...
When Steve Stanko took his turn last week he made the judges' eyes pop. In the press, he lifted 270 Ibs., for a new U. S. record. In the snatch, he raised 280 Ibs., for another U. S. record. When his score was tallied, Bar Bellman Stanko not only won the U. S. heavyweight championship but broke a third U. S. record with a total...
During the course of the meeting N. N. B. A. held its annual election. No one was in doubt how it would turn out. Re-elected for the 14th time was its only president: 85-year-old Major (Spanish-American War paymaster) Richard R. Wright, president of the Citizens & Southern...