Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Weight 165. Medium brown hair, out short. Bluish-grey eyes. Believed to be wearing a single-breasted suit of dark brown or grayish mixture. He is known to have been wearing a hat but no overcoat. No luggage. Those having any information are asked to communicate by phone or wire to J. R. Hamlen, Lehman Hall, Cambridge, Telephone, University...
...late Mr. Pierce fancied troutfishing so keenly that he had the produce of his fish-hatcheries and nurseries graded by size and put into 17 pools or "holes" in the Brule River flowing north through his property. Wire screens which bob up into place again after a boat passes over them, separate the pools. Brush and windfalls are so dense along the river's banks that fishing is impossible except from a boat. A onetime employe of the late Mr. Pierce says the Brule trout used to be so thick and tame (from hand-feeding) that you could take...
...Ward Leigh is famed for many miles about Nyack, N. Y. as the lady who lives in a glass house surrounded by a high wire fence and never eats meat. Late one night last week, firemen answered an alarm at Mrs. Leigh's home. Reaching the wire fence they could not enter. Politely they phoned credentials (by a telephone at the outer gate); firmly they insisted that they were authentic firemen; were at length given entrance. Mrs. Ward Leigh they found seated before a large sirloin steak. Querulously she told them not to break the glass of her house...
...emotional crisis occurs when he falls in love with his little ward, only to learn that she loves Luigi, nobleman. The clown refuses to accept the sacrifice of affection which is proffered him by his lady. Instead, he kills himself by sliding down a wire. "Laugh, Clown, Laugh," he cries before his suicide...
Actresses are not presented at Court to Their Britannic Majesties.* Neither are acrobats, ballerinas, lady ventriloquists, tight-wire dancers, professional fat women, female pugilists. But what about a lady monologuist? What about famed Ruth Draper, solitary U. S. aristocrat of the blatant sisterhood? Last week at the Third Court of the present London Season there were presented to Their Majesties, at Buckingham Palace, eight U. S. citizenesses: Mrs. Alton Brooks Parker, widow of the Democratic candidate for President of the U. S. in 1904. Miss Ruth Draper of Manhattan. Miss Lois Davidson, Houston, Tex.; Miss Neville T. Gherardi, Chevy Chase...