Word: underwoods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...halfway mark, Typsters Sherry & Kolin glanced at the score board, saw they were falling far behind, got up and quit. For many years international typewriting contests were sponsored by Underwood Typewriter Co. but any manufacturer is glad to furnish a machine to contestants for the good advertising of having a champion use it. For several years Underwoods won. Then came Depression and the contests stopped. Last week's contest was run by International Commercial Schools Contest Association, and the three survivors, tearing the hearts out of their machines, were using Royals...
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences: Claude C. Albritton, of Dallas, Texas, (Ph.D. Marshal); Henry G. H. Halvorson, of Huntington Park, California, (A. M. Marshal), Law School: Abraham R. Ginsburgh, of Wikes Barre, Pennsylvania. Divinity School: Arthur P. Colbourne, of Secretary, Maryland. Dental School: Charles M. Underwood, of New York City. Medical School: Daniel B. Dorman '32, of Beirut Syria. School of Public Health: Charles G. Hutter of Washington. Graduate School of Design: (including degrees in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and City Planning) Eustis Dearbon '32, of Sandwich, Graduate School of Business Administration: William S. Allen, of Winchester, Graduate School...
Speeches by His Majesty in which he takes a special interest, King Edward composes on his Underwood portable, using most of his fingers in striking the keys. He then hands this typescript to his advisers, who make suggestions by striking out or inserting between his double-spaced lines. Thus the word "radio" typed by His Majesty in composing his first broadcast was struck out and in was written "wireless." This suggestion His Majesty overruled and back the word went to "radio...
While Longone was irritably defending himself, one Doris Maud Underwood, plump Indian soprano who bills herself as Princess Pakanli of the Chickasaw tribe, brought suit against him for $30,000, claiming that he encouraged her to prepare for leading roles, then refused to let her perform unless she paid him a guarantee of $5,500. Similar rumors kept popping. Critic Glenn Dillard Gunn of the Herald & Examiner openly asserted that Ethel Leginska had paid for the production of her opera, Gale. Soprano Lola Fletcher admitted privately that she had to pay $125 to sing Musetta in La Boheme...
...investigator for a wholesale house, went to a hotel dance with some friends and his pretty wife, Daisy, 30. There the Roots, who had been living apart for six weeks, got into a quarrel because Mrs. Root resented her husband's attentions to a cigaret girl named Lucille Underwood. Daisy Root returned to her home, where she lived with her 4-year-old son. An hour later, pistol in hand, she entered Brenton Root's ome, awakened him, said, "Look at me, darling," shot him dead. To all of this, according to police, Mrs. Root soon confessed...