Word: valparaiso
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Above Valparaiso, Ind., an airplane scuttled, alit, scuttled aloft again, like a busy grasshopper. "That's Loewenstein's," exclaimed burghers out marketing and hastened to Morris Loewenstein's grocery store...
Like Alfred Loewenstein, shrewd Belgian financier, now dead by a fall from his plane, Valparaiso's Loewenstein uses his airplane to increase his business. To every customer who buys $25 worth of groceries for cash he gives a lengthy air ride-to the chagrin of his torpid competitors...
...spirit that summons an alumnus from Europe, Bangkok, or Valparaiso to attend with his class-mates a few days of reunion near the Charles is latent in the man who sleeps obviously through the exercises heralding his farewell to Harvard, latent but almost never nonexistent. The very man who attempted through ennui to turn over a Brighton street car the night his Spread dance is found in the forefront of his class five years later hurling confetti at the Stadium jumping pits. The ritual of departure, prolonged as it may seem to the Senior, is the creation...
...Once, at Urga, Mongolia," said Frau lein Stinnes, "we had to pay 140 marks ($336) for 106 litres of gasoline (28 gallons)." From San Francisco petite Motorist Stinnes proposed to sail for Valparaiso, Chile, whence she will motor northward to Washington, D. C., and thence proceed home to Berlin...
...Republican, of the Third Oregon District. He jumped or fell into San Francisco Bay and was drowned. Mr. Crumpacker had spent the previous night at the San Francisco Emergency Hospital, after having been found sitting on a curbstone and stating that he had been poisoned. He was born in Valparaiso, Ind., and had been in Congress since 1925. Mr. Crumpacker had been an Army captain in the World...