Word: yards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conversation with French Premier Edouard Daladier which appeared completely to engross the two statesmen as the car in which they rode followed the procession. The $7,500.000 jewels meanwhile were whisked quietly to the British Embassy, locked up in the safe. Individual pieces were brought separately by the Scotland Yard detectives to Their Majesties, who lodged on the Quai d'Orsay in the palace of the French Foreign Office. There, the large bed in which small Emperor Napoleon once slept was found just right for tall George VI, but Queen Elizabeth proved too tall to be comfortable...
...victim, whose name by agreement was left undisclosed last week, and the nature of the attack offered better than ordinary grounds for exhibiting the limitations of the law. Accordingly, with the consent of the girl's parents, he performed the operation seven weeks ago, then asked Scotland Yard to arrest...
...night the pump master bought two cases of beer, four cases of soda water and gave a dance in his front yard. The musicians got lost in the jungle but Garcia played the fiddle. It was a dark night. Manuel had brought Carlos a pair of tight, shiny shoes as a present from Texas. Carlos, used to running barefoot, slipped on a narrow bridge and fell into the river. When the boy was missed, the women wailed, the men put a consecrated candle on a piece of wood, let it float to midstream. Where it stopped, Perez dived and brought...
Thus after six distressfully disputatious days at Scranton. Pa., young (34) John Ringling North's circus paused in Franklin Roosevelt's back yard to check up before proceeding to winter quarters at Sarasota, Fla. The show was off the road before midseason because Mr. North, having lost money lately, was unable to induce his union roustabouts to take a 25? pay cut. Last week Mr. North reached into a $250,000 "nut" acquired early in the season, paid off the roustabouts. He also paid off the thin man, the fat woman, the clowns, the midgets, most of whom...
...warrant for her estranged husband's arrest, when & if he should set foot in England. Her charge: The Count, whom she is trying to divorce in Denmark, had threatened her with bodily harm. The Count, in Paris, ordered his luggage packed, took train and boat to London. Scotland Yard officials politely whisked him to famed old Dickensian Bow Street Police Court, where his lawyer, Norman Birkett, who got the Duchess of Windsor her divorce from Mr. Simpson, asked to have the case postponed. Agreeing, the Chief Magistrate stipulated that: The Count must: 1) not try to see his wife...