Word: vernon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Also the troopships (oldtime German liners) Monticetto and Mount Vernon...
...maudlin good. But out of necessity perhaps to H. G. Wells to whom the book is dedicated, Author Gerhardi winds up his loose strands with a tiresome world destruction. Ottercove flies with Vernon Sprott (Arnold Bennett) toward the patch of earth that survives the end of the world, but disintegrates on the way. As Castor & Pollux the two men are immortalized by the glowing ends of their cigars. Ottercove's unborn son and Eva and some of her lovers are chief survivors of the extravaganza...
National Dairy Products and Telling-Belle Vernon...
...evening, friends assembled in the living room of the Hoover home. Negro butlers, directed by Mrs. Hoover, served lemonade. There were carnations in the vases. Associate Justice Stone, of the U. S. Supreme Court, and Mrs. Stone were there; also the Vernon Kelloggs, George Barr Baker, assistant to the Attorney General, William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan, Mrs. William E. Borah, and the Herbert Clark Hoover Jrs. Herbert Clark Hoover III and Peggy Anne Hoover were put to bed long before anything exciting happened...
Bloodthirst hankered for three weeks in Vernon and Rapides Parishes, La., after the killing of Deputy Sheriff J. Frank Phillips by William Blackman, black man. Police slew Blackman in turn, promptly. Then they protected Blackman's brothers, Lee and Dave Blackman, by locking them in the Leesville jail...