Showing posts with label short. Show all posts
Showing posts with label short. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Tall Heiress Divorces Short Hubby

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1920 Objects to Mate Because of His Low Altitude LOS ANGELES, Cal., Jan. 1. — Mrs. Ellen Van Trees, heiress, is alleged to have objected to ...
Friday, July 13, 2007

Hotel Clerks' "Kittie"

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1910 Box Into Which Excess Change Is Dropped to Make Up Possible Shortages "The 'kittie' is the latest thing for the protection...
Sunday, June 24, 2007

A Pickerel Thought His Nose Was Bait

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1911 Editorial Briefs Winsted, Conn., has a fisherman who claims to have caught a pickerel because the latter mistook his nose for bait and ...
Saturday, June 16, 2007

Short Shorts

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1900 Conventional Wisdom The duelist's aim is at the point of honor. Some business men only win financial success through failures. The ...
Tuesday, June 5, 2007

Lauds The Bantam Soldier

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1915 British Medical Journal Says the Little Fellows Are Good for Trench Work London. — That little men have many advantages in war time ove...
Monday, May 14, 2007

Life in Dreary Iceland; Romance in America

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1878 Life in Dreary Iceland Men and women, masters and servants, all inhabit the same room, while the cleanliness is not much attended to; b...
Tuesday, May 1, 2007

Cow's Tail Wedged Between Ice Cakes

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1920 Farmer Has to Chop Animal Out With an Ax. WANDSVILLE, Maine — Twice a day Samuel Fatts, a dairyman of this village, lets h is cows out ...