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...pound: Harr (H) defeated Lister (T), upright crotch and half-nelson. Time...
Lincoln, long the $2,500-and-up crown jewel of Ford, is superseded this year by Lincoln-Zephyr, Lincoln Continental and Lincoln Custom. The foreign-looking, rakish Continental (introduced last year), has extra-large, square-cornered trunk and upright rear tire which violate streamliners' ideals but make a distinctive car. Prices ($1,477 to $2,864) include pushbutton door latches, automatic windows and V12 120-h.p. engines...
They burrowed underground like gophers, into damp shelters and subways where they slept on hard benches, on concrete floors or sitting upright like yogis. Those who had worked hard all day slept most easily. Chief bores were oldsters, who kept others awake chattering about the raids, and all those, young & old, who snored. Official "shelter shakers" moved about waking the snorers; and apartment-house porters became self-appointed Admirable Crichtons, supervising sleeping arrangements, moving furniture, brewing...
Jimmy was shut up in a dark, airless cell in the prison's cellar, with a ceiling so low that he could not stand upright. They showed his wife the cell later. They kept him drugged, presumably to make him talk: she counted 36 hypodermic punctures on his body...
...world's records have been broken at Toledo), the country's leading stable owners last week were willing to trust their pets to a track sanctioned by their fellow owner, Socialite Elbridge T. Gerry, Chairman of New York's Harness Racing Commission, and backed by such upright citizens as Socialites Robert G. Johnson, J. Averell Clark, William G. Curran...