Word: windsors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Windsor, Ont. Arthur Ryan pleaded not guilty to killing his neighbor's rooster, asserted that the rooster had committed suicide by cutting its head off with a spade...
...engine. Few nights later a twin-engined Curtiss Condor of American Airways, flown by Dean Smith, onetime Byrd antarctic pilot, had engine trouble between Buffalo and Detroit, flopped down, with nine passengers and a crew of three, upon the thinly iced surface of Lake St. Clair, near Windsor. Ont. With wheels retracted, the plane bumped through the ice while the lower wing supported the craft. Passengers and crew clambered atop the upper wing, huddled in the darkness until rescuers took them ashore...
Alfred Dunhill was not always pipemaker to the House of Windsor. Originally he satisfied a penchant for modest yachting and the blending of fine tobaccos from a fashionable harness and leather-goods business. He bought the third automobile ever imported into Britain, built up a private collection of pipes second only to that in the British Museum. After the turn of the century when the harness business dwindled, his shop became "Dunhill Motorities." selling linen dusters, leather breeches, goggles, veils and gauntlets to motor-minded lords & ladies. In 1905, he sold out his Dunhill Motorities with its slogan of "Everything...
...suit brought against Film Actress Claire Windsor by Marian Read in Los Angeles for alienating the affections of Broker Alfred C. Read Jr. (TIME, Sept. 25): decision by Superior Judge J. P. Sproul that the jury's award of $75,000 against Actress Windsor "was so grossly excessive and unreasonable as to raise the presumption of passion and prejudice." He ordered a new trial...
...Boston Herald and program annotator for the Boston Symphony Orchestra. A onetime lawyer, he studied music in Berlin, Munich, Stuttgart, Paris, became an organist and choral conductor, a newspaper critic in 1890. As Herald critic since 1903, he was famed for witty, lucid, learned writing, for his bright Windsor ties and for the green felt bag which he carried almost everywhere...