Word: twice
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Twice the year before had Dr. Mudd talked briefly with John Wilkes Booth. But on the early morning of April 15, 1865 the actor-assassin, fresh from the Presidential box at Ford's Theatre, went to him in disguise under a false name, played his part so well that the country doctor never suspected his identity. Not until he heard the circumstances of Lincoln's death did Dr. Mudd grow suspicious, notify the authorities. For this service he was arrested as a conspirator. The whole land cried for quick, blind revenge. Booth might or might not have burned...
...copy sent by wirephoto to reach Amelia Earhart at a banquet given in Oakland, Calif., in honor of her Hawaiian flight. The flight, according to the San Francisco News, was a Hawaiian publicity stunt for which Miss Earhart was paid $10,000. Said the President's twice-sent letter: "You have scored again...
...year to make. The result of all this money and mind, time and talent is, in David Copperfield, an example of the cinema's ability to use one masterpiece to create another. As rich, uproarious, tragic and astonishing as its original, it falls short in only one department. Twice as long as an ordinary picture, it lasts only two hours and ten minutes...
Married. Huddie Ledbetter. ("Lead Belly"), 46, Negro singer and guitar player, twice-pardoned murderer (TIME, Jan. 14); and Martha Promise, Shreveport. La. laundress; at the Wilton, Conn. home of John Avery Lomax, music anthologist...
Milt Green turned in the best Crimson performance, clearing the high hurdles twice in the time of 5 4-5 seconds, to equal the indoor world record...