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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...glances at a photograph of the stepmother and utters a low neurotic moan. She is his onetime wife, whose portrait, for a decade, he has kept among the bottles in his desk. By the time he is ready to organize his defense, the girl's father has been twice tried and condemned to death. He is in the death house at Sing Sing and it is only by pointing a revolver at the real murderer, a gangster who first stole Mrs. Barringer's affections, that Barringer saves his client's life with only 20 seconds to spare...
Although the Instrumental Clubs have been practicing twice weekly since the beginning of October, this will be but the second concert of the season, their first appearance being at Governor Dummer Academy last Saturday evening. They will play at Phillips Academy, Andover, next Saturday evening, while further concerts will be given on Thursday, December 21, and Friday, December 22, for the Harvard Clubs of New Bedford and Rhode Island, respectively...
...been noise and bustle, the clicking of typewriters, he glare of camera flashlights. Last week Judge Callahan excluded all photographers. All was quiet as a squat, hard-faced blonde in a blue chiffon dress and a peaked black hat climbed to the witness stand, chewing snuff. Victoria Price, twice-married mill-hand, onetime vagrant, told in less than ten minutes and in language so foul that newshawks could not print it, the story of her alleged rape. Then she pointed to Heywood Patterson as one of her assailants...
...harbor, but the ship refused to rise, so slick was the water, so still the air. They unloaded 40 gal. of fuel, piled most of their baggage ashore. The Colonel rocked the controls back & forth as he gunned the ship across the harbor. Still it refused to take off. Twice, thrice-five times he tried, then dejectedly clambered ashore again to whistle for a breeze...
...Army went into the game undefeated, untied. Notre Dame had won only two games all season, had scored only twice. During the first half of last week's game at New York's Yankee Stadium Army made two touchdowns, thanks to Quarterback '"Beany" Johnson and Halfback "Texas Jack" Buckler. The outcome seemed so certain that nobody worried much when both Buckler's kicks for extra point failed. The break came in the final period after a march from midfield. Notre Dame's smiling Halfback Nick Lukats ripped through and around Army's line...