Word: valleyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Lucile Brokaw, 20, daughter of Irving Brokaw, Manhattan socialite and ice-skater; and James Duane Pell Bishop, socialite rug company employe; in Locust Valley...
...Monett, Mo., 200 members of the United Browning Families assembled for a basket supper, quartet singing, a speech by State Legislator Lewis Browning, and discussion of the erection of a Browning Memorial Building. Organized last year, U. B. F. draws most of its members from Browning's Valley, Mo. Best known is Wrestler Jim ("Wrigglin' ") Browning who defeated "Strangler" Lewis in 1933. Famed as much for their nicknames as for their physical strength, Ozark members of the U. B. F. are known to friends and relatives as: Tar Pole, Buck Foot, Dough Belly, Goofy, Little Creamy, Big Bugs, Hard Head...
...Into Death Valley from Red Mountain, Calif. chugged the automobile of Prospector John Backert, bound with his family of three for the Backert claim at Leach Springs, 60 miles away. Suddenly, one of the desert's rare cloudbursts swept down upon them, made a river of the road, forced the car to turn up a hillside, where it broke an axle. Well aware of their danger, Prospector Backert and Daughter Ernestine, 22, left Mrs. Backert, 51, and Daughter Agnes, 12, in the car, started to hike the 40 miles back to town, got there 48 hours later. Organizing...
...hours the lost pair stumbled over the barren Valley floor, their feet blistered, their lips cracked, their tongues swollen. Often crossing their own footprints, they realized they were circling hopelessly. At last, completely exhausted, they lay down beside a dry mudhole to await their fate. There last week a searching airplane pilot finally spied little Agnes feebly waving a blanket...
...Long Valley, N. J., arrested for peeking at nudists sunning themselves in a camp next to his farm, William Searles invited 150 neighbors to watch the nudists from his property, complained: "Why, there was only two good looking girls in the lot and they would have looked a lot better if they had had their dresses on. One woman weighed 300 lb. anyway. . . . There's nothing pretty about a naked woman...