Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, having made a quiet but thorough examination of the bombing, Bayonne's Police Chief Cornelius O'Neill came to the conclusion that "that guy" was none other than Sparks Rogers himself, ordered his arrest. The wire used on the homemade bomb, said Chief O'Neill, was the same as that in one of Rogers' radio kits and the note had been typed on an office machine. Lieutenant Doyle recalled that Rogers, who generally opened the bureau's mail, had given him the package and asked him three times during the day to open...
...back in Warsaw after conferring in Rome with II Duce, dispatched to President Antanas Smetona of Lithuania demands asking nothing more than that the "state of war'' which has existed between Poland and Lithuania for nearly 18 years give way to peace, that the closed and barbed-wire-strung frontier between the two countries be opened, that they resume diplomatic relations, that railway, mail and telegraph connections between them be reestablished...
...Amarillo, Tex., Mrs. Roosevelt received the "world's biggest bouquet"-a 2,500-pound bunch of roses, bound with chicken wire and swung on a derrick- at a celebration of Mother-in-Law Day which involved a parade with a float carrying 591 mothers-in-law, and 50,000 spectators. Said Mrs. Roosevelt: "I feel I shall think more about mothers-in-law after this...
...Hollywood all studios except Twentieth Century-Fox stopped work to fight the water. Victor McLaglen suffered a $20,000 loss when his sports stadium was virtually swept away by floodwaters. In her basement Lucille Ball found her wire-haired terrier swimming in four feet of water. Marooned at his Chatsworth Ranch, Robert Taylor had to ride a horse two miles to reach a highway. Shirley Temple and her mother spent the night at her studio. Milton Berle's car stalled in three feet of water over a manhole. Before the car could be started the manhole cover blew...
...Master Culbertson, still wary of green suits, called super-bridge a false alarm, pointed out that "most people do not even know how to handle four suits, and three-suit bridge has a better chance for success than five-suit, bridge." But newspaper editors, tiring of wire stories from all ends of the earth telling of miraculous one-suit hands being dealt to people with weak hearts, welcomed a card game in which a one-suit hand was impossible. Other card players found the possibilities of the new deck intriguing. To the poker crowd, for example, it opened bright vistas...