Word: upped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Between national events, Announcer McNamee attends Elks dinners, conventions, baby parades, makes "personal appearances" in vaudeville. His usual fee for livening up an Elks dinner is $250.
Confused and annoyed was "Herex" to learn next day that should dangerous Badman Maggio return to Sicily, it would be in a horizontal position. He had been murdered two months before. "Herex" itself had played up his death story.
Archly the rival Tribune pasted the clipping on its bulletin board with this legend: "When there is no news, the Herex digs it up."
It Atlanta, Ga., Bess, fox terrier, went up with her master in an airplane to make her 20th parachute jump. At a height of 1,500 feet she was dropped over the side, swaddled in paraphernalia. She fell swiftly all the way; the parachute did not open. When mechanics approached...
Curtiss-Wright Sales Co. gave a flying party last week for air-curious business leaders of the New York area who had never had a ride in an airplane. At Valley Stream, L. I., hummed expectantly the Company's Ford trimotor. In squads it engulfed intrepid New York businessmen...