Word: twice
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died, George Washington Olvany Jr., 22, son of a onetime (1924-29) boss of Manhattan's Tammany Hall; in Manhattan, where he had been taken after shooting himself twice in the head at Saranac Lake...
...didn't make me take off my shoes." Pulling up his trousers, he ex hibited white socks above his high boots. ''See those? Well, they're the same socks I wore when I left Washington. Yep, Mrs. Garner washed them every day and darned them twice...
Last week's conclave in Chicago was no exception. Prize article on the block was the Philadelphia Athletics' genial, broad-beamed James Emory (''Jimmy") Foxx, twice voted "most valuable player" in the American League, propeller of 58 home runs in 1932, possessor of a lifetime batting average of .338. Casting covetous eyes at him was Thomas Austin Yawkey, equally genial and broad-beamed owner of the onetime lowly Boston Red Sox. Tycoon Yawkey paid $1,000,000 for the club three years ago, spent $2,000,000 more to raise the tailenders to fourth place...
Newshawks were barred but bulletins, telephoned down to an obliging Hutton hireling, were popped through the grilled entrance. "Now they're walking down the aisle," he yelled. "Now they're being married. . . . It's all over and he kissed her twice, once on each cheek...
quired to attend worship. . . . On Saturday alone was there permission to leave Cambridge. . . . Boston was the universal resort; though seldom otherwise than on foot, the only public conveyance then being a two-horse stage-coach which ran twice...