Word: watchful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tumbling out of their classrooms and onto their campus ashiver with excitement one day last week went all the 500 boys and girls of Los Angeles Junior College. The college faculty gathered to watch from a porch. Facing each other on the grass stood sturdy, curly-headed Student Robert Cousineau and wiry Student Harold Bauer, each stripped to the waist and each armed with a sword. As the excited audience chattered and peered, cameramen recorded the scene and newshawks watched intently. With full faculty approval, a duel was about to be fought. When Students Cousineau and Bauer finished posing, they...
...arrangement effected years ago, the press stood no death watch on Rockefeller as it does on other aged and ailing celebrities. Instead, his Manhattan public relations counsel, T. J. Ross (successor to Ivy Lee), telephoned the news to major press agencies...
...bodies, and edging among the audience. The guy with a girl grabs here arm and carefully threads a path towards the gate. One hand lets fall a program, announcing a selection of songs that the Harvard Glee Club will sing to a species of people whom the Vagabond will watch as they watch him, this evening at seven o'clock...
Squatting on a sand-bin in Whitehall, a 62-year-old Mrs. Heggs from the Isle of Wight sheltered her sandwiches, cigarets and a bottle of wine under her umbrella and declared: "I'm used to these all-night waits. I sat up for 24 hours to watch his father's Silver Jubilee procession. I claim to be the first arrival on the Coronation procession route...
...James Aloysius Farley, was haled into Manhattan City Court by his divorced wife, who demanded payment of $730 back alimony. Pleaded Farley: "I am overdrawn $200 at the Chase National Bank. ... I have only $20 in my pockets, and all the property I have is a pearl stickpin, a watch and a cheap pair of cuff links. I am unemployed...