Word: wrecks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weeks of Thomas Dwyer's attendance at Fordham and the kindness of fellow students abated. When he was fed, they (to escape nausea) kept their eyes away. They complained to Dean Deane. The student who voluntarily helped the crippled boy with his personal needs became a nervous wreck. So the dean last week wrote to Student Dwyer's father, a New York doctor, saying that the boy must be withdrawn and advising private tutors...
...awaited the flyers in Tokyo. Said Mr. Brock: "We quit because the entire world is fighting us." There was another possible reason for their quitting. They had flown 12.275 miles in 19 days; there re- mained 9,847 miles to be flown in 9% days if they were to wreck the present record of 28 days, 14 hours, 36 minutes...
...Illinois, said he could discover no effect on Democratic chances. The loudest gloater, oddly enough, was the majestic New York Times, which said: "When will our dazed friends, the Republican politicians, quit sobbing and sputtering like a child whose china lamb has just been smashed? Their chagrin at the wreck of their plans is intelligible, if somewhat amusing. The pins were all set up, and now they are all knocked down...
...inflated their pneumatic tub, paddled 200 yards to the shore of the little fishing village of Ver-sur-Mer, where in 1588 one of the prides of the Spanish Armada had been shattered on the rocks. Lieutenant Noville twice returned to the America's wreck to save the first transatlantic air mail, a tiny Betsy Ross flag for President Gaston Doumergue of France, some of Commander Byrd's scientific data...
Closed Gates (Jane Novak, Johnny Harron). This should be a good lesson to erring youths and indiscriminate cinemagoers. It tells about the scion of a wealthy family who allowed himself to get into an automobile wreck with the wrong girl, thus precipitating a scandal that killed his invalid mother. Father banishes Son; grimly the gates close behind his homelife. War . . . shell shock... amnesia. The boy returns, having lost trace of his family, his past, his own name. The heroine marries him anyhow. One day he wanders into his mother's bedroom to weep on her pillow. Father sees...