Word: twice
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Still to be retried were the four brown bucks charged with assaulting Mrs. Massie. Without her as its chief witness, the prosecution's case would collapse. Mrs. Massie, having told the story of her ravishment twice in court, did not want to do so again. Prosecutor Kelley heard she was sailing for the mainland with her husband and mother aboard S. S. Malolo. He got a subpena to detain her. Policeman Dewey Mookini went to the Pearl Harbor Naval Base to serve it. She was nowhere to be found. The Press was told she had had a "nervous breakdown...
CAPTAIN ARCHER'S DAUGHTER-Mar-garet Deland-Harper ($2.50). Starting at a gallop Authoress Deland's novel, her first since 1926, slows down when she forces the story round the same track twice, in order to reiterate its theme. Even with this change of pace the story is worth telling; its author's graceful, polished competence makes the telling true to romance...
...Ellsworth Vines Jr., U. S. tennis champion: the Mason & Dixon championship, beating in the final Wilmer Allison, of Austin, Tex., who had twice beat him earlier this year 6-4, 6-1, 6-4; at White Sulphur Springs...
...twice as cooling and cheaper to handle, it could not overcome the 25-1 water-ice advantage. During the last few years solid 2 has dropped steadily in price, sold recently at 3? with some large users obtaining it at 2-2½?. One large maker says it will drop to 1½? by summer. At 2?, or $40 a ton, the CO 2 men think their product can compete with water-ice. In addition to being twice as cooling, solid CO 2 leaves a blanket of gas which insulates against heat for so long a time as to make...
...Newsprint is the feminine element in the pressroom. It is never alike twice. . . . There must be a kindly discipline exerted over it. ... When a sheet of newsprint breaks in the press it raises hell, just like a woman getting hysterical...