Word: va
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among 28 paupers in the Wetzel County, W. Va. Infirmary at New Martinsville were Alex Wilson, 75, and Nicholas Barcus, 74, friends since boyhood. Last week Nick was dead of a fractured skull and Alex in jail, charged with murder. Said Alex Wilson: "Nick and me, we never had any trouble. ... It was all over a little argument about Nick locking the door. He came up with a cane and said whoever said he locked the door was a liar. And I shouted back to him that he did lock it. Then he swung his cane...
...swank, fox-hunting Warrenton, Va., Washington Society Columnist Count Igor Cassini (grandson of the late Tsarist Ambassador to the U. S. Count Arthur Cassini) was lured from a country-club dance, tarred & feathered by five aristobrats. Arrested next day were Ian and Colin Montgomery, Alexander Calvert. Reported the Count: "I recognized Ian Montgomery and asked him, 'Why are you doing this to me?' He said I had written in my column that his mother was invited to the reception for the King and Queen of England and that his father had not been invited...
Married. Sir Willmott Harsant Lewis, 62, famed Washington correspondent of the London Times; and Socialite Mrs. Norma Bowler Hull,* 51; both for the third time, in Lorton, Va...
Marriage Disclosed. Lewis Edward Lawes, 55, Sing Sing Prison's warden and a widower since 1937; and Elise Chisholm, 35, theatrical agent; last April; in Arlington, Va...
Justice Frankfurter, vastly enjoying his new pontifical position, planned to pause at his home in Cambridge, Mass, before sailing to receive an honorary degree from Oxford University, England. Justice Roberts headed for his Pennsylvania farm; Justice Black for a rented house at Seminary, Va.; Justice Butler for an honorary degree from Boston College, then his farm at Woodbine, Md.; Justice Stone for his 45th class reunion at Amherst, then for Isle au Haut...