Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Utah's Smoot, no great wit, was joking. A onetime woolman, he knows West Riding woolens...
...description of her said: "She adores horses, motor cars, and motor boats. . . . Peel of London makes her riding boots, and Nardi her habits. . . . Her favorite luncheon place is the Voisin where she always has a certain corner table. . . . They know her in Vienna, Prague, Salzburg, New York, and points west as the nun in The Miracle, and all over Europe as a member of Max Reinhardt's Repertoire company. . . . She shuttles between New York and an island off the coast of Maine by train, car, and speed boat. . . . Her personal car is HUPMOBILE. She drives it herself. One admiring Westchester...
Died. "Big" Arthur Callen, of Philadelphia, veteran racketeer; in West Philadelphia; shot with six soft-nosed bullets by an unidentified gunman. Racketeer Callen who usually wore a bullet-proof vest and travelled in an armored car, was apparently spotted* before dawn, defenseless. In his apartment police found a rifle with silencer, a shot gun, an acetylene torch, nitroglycerine, six pair of canvas gloves and opium equipment...
...transient (divorce-seeking) trade. Discreet enough to be considered proper for the University of Nevada's young people, these places bear such idyllic names as "The Willows" and "Idlewild,'' though at a place called Lawton's Springs there is sometimes heard an echo of "the West that...
...competitors entered the Edison plant for their official reception, they found speakers' platforms, microphones, chairs, benches. Pale, a little nervous, the boys sat down. Spectators commented on the normalcy and healthfulness of their appearance, were amused as they recognized the drawl of the south, the slur of the west. Ranging in age from 15 to 21, the boys had come from all classes, from farms, towns, cities. There was the son of the Czecho-Slovakian consul at Pittsburgh, the son of a bishop, a boy brought up in an orphanage. Rather stiffly they sat there in the hot sun, looking...