Word: wright
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Doubles: Woodard and Underwood (H) defeated Davis and Gilder (M), winning the third set by default; Webber and McMichael (II) defeated Page and Parker (M), 5-7, 6-4, 6-2; Gordon and Fiske (M) defeated S. T. M. Wright '33 and J. K. Mitchell...
...Brooklyn, Policeman Frank Wright spied a nocturnal prowler in his garden. He grabbed his pistol, rushed out of the house in his pajamas, took after the fleeing prowler, dropped him with a bullet in the ankle. "Well, you did it," said the wounded man as Policeman Wright glowered above him. A neighbor, Irving Katlin, the prowler said he was an insomniac. He had entered Policeman Wright's garden, which he had long admired, to soothe his sleeplessness. Policeman Wright, contrite, called an ambulance and said: "I'll give you some of my rose slips...
...that its head has brought all his forceful scholarship to bear upon such things, while retaining his own remarkable sense of values and proportion. What interests Mr. Lowes in these Romantics, after their mysterious genius, is their humanity, and the letter he has consistently enriched with his own. Cuthbert Wright...
...last week in Aviation magazine castigate the airplane industry for its lack of ingenuity and inventiveness. In the same tenor in the same magazine two years ago Designer Stout, long a gadfly of the industry, observed that no plane had been produced as efficient per horsepower as the original Wright kite-like biplane. Illustrating with cartoons from his own drawing board (see cut), he queried: ''What would you think if the designer of a ship put the propeller in front to blow all the water back over the hull ... of a bicycle manufacturer starting to build high wheeled...
Died. Harry Wright Rogers, 36, pioneer pilot, oldtime airline operator; of a jugular gash received in his first serious crash in 17 years of spectacular flying: near the Glenn Curtiss Airport (of which he was operations manager), Long Island. Died. Mrs. Winifred Finlay Fosdick, wife of Lawyer Raymond Elaine Fosdick; by her own hand (pistol), after shooting her children, Susan, 15, and Raymond Elaine Jr., 10, to death in their sleep; in Montclair, N. J. Reason: homicidal mania growing out of a progressive form of paranoia for which she had been under treatment for several years. Brother of Manhattan...