Word: watchful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much undeserved publicity on the front pages of the country, have as much fact behind them as the present comic-opera skirmish at Williamstown. Rebuffed by a deplorable lack of hospitality on the part of the Williams student body, the embassy of good will from Boston's over-lighted watch-towers will make a hasty return to the genial city where its efforts to save America from looming chaos receive the appreciation they deserve...
...symbolizes other distinctions which make the races, except for their importance to steeplechase enthusiasts, as dissimilar as possible. The Grand National, over dreary flats near Liverpool, is run for a purse of approximately ?5,000. It settles a huge sweepstake and costs most of the 300,000 who watch it a shilling for the privilege. The Maryland Hunt Cup race, started in 1894 when two rival fox hunts decided to see which had the best horses, is for a silver cup which Captain Kettle would have retired last week if he had been a step faster. The race is ridden...
Into the vast dining hall of a Manhattan hotel this week thronged 800 conspicuously well-groomed men-all district managers of Prudential Insurance Co. of America. Ostensibly this was to be their. annual, banquet. In balconies, hanging over the railings to watch the eating & drinking better, were the womenfolk. At the speakers' table big, bluff President Edward Dickinson Duffield took his place, and close to him his good old friend, Dr. Frederick Ludwig Hoffman, Prudential's longtime consultant on vital statistics. Dr. Hoffman, a frail and fretful oldster, fidgeted as he ate and drank. For President Duffield...
...Gold plated wrist watch or clock, marked on movement "Septime" watch Co. 11 jewels, Movement No. 48382 made in Switzerland. This clock is in a brown leather case...
...white gold Abercrombie and Fitch Wrist watch, gents, Initials on back J. J. K. Jr. Case No. 3780403, Identified as the property of John J. Kirby, Jr. 53 Dunster St. Cambridge, Mass...