Word: verandas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From a marble veranda on a hilltop overlooking Poona, the Mahatma issued that same night a potent announcement: for at least a month the civil disobedience campaign and the boycott of British goods should cease. He hoped that the Government would release all civil-disobedience prisoners. Then Gandhi concentrated on his fast, slept, spun, talked, took water, salt and soda...
...debt against Cold Stream Corp. asked that a receiver be appointed for the property. The appointee was one Felix A. Duffy, secretary to Nassau County's Democratic Boss Philip Krug. Receiver Duffy got in his car, drove up to the vast old cupolaed Belmont mansion. On its spacious veranda he was surprised to find several revenue agents, reading old magazines, in possession of the premises. "I'm the receiver," announced Mr. Duffy. "Well," said the agents, "look what you received." Inside the spacious house, vacant for years but well cared for, Mr. Duffy was dazzled to behold...
...Minor, but to the rest of the world its doors were closed. Miss Merrill's body was found early one morning last week in a thicket a hundred yards from her home. The night before there had been screams, shots. A trail of blood led back to the veranda, through Miss Merrill's bedroom to the dining room. Early clues pointed to two of Miss Merrill's neighbors-scraggly, bearded Richard Dana, 61, who claims to be the nephew of the late great Charles Anderson Dana (New York Sun) and Miss Octavia Dockery, 60, daughter...
...weakened by three important withdrawals in the last week, was not up to Derby standard and the horses were hard to rate on form, but everyone knew about most of the riders. Everyone could have a good look at them. Perched like bright birds in the sun on the veranda of the jockey house, they sat chatting to each other. In the moving crowd below the veranda stood a detective watching them...
Wrestler Jim Londos who had won a match the night before put a bet on Sweep All, horse of Charles T. Fisher (Bodies). Barney Oldfield, smoking a cigaret, sat on the club house veranda talking to Jack Curley who once taught him how to ride a bicycle. Boxer Max Schmeling stood and looked at the crowd with his habitually puzzled expression. Actress Queenie Smith made excited comments to her escort Drama critic Robert Garland. Blind Thomas Pryor Gore, onetime Senator from Oklahoma said he liked Twenty Grand. John Hertz remembered the year his Reigh Count won the Derby. Jockey Earl...