Word: accounts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tribune, in Chicago, where Mrs. Stillman was once the debutante "Fifi" Potter, and whither she seldom returns, put all the animus of constitutional vulgarity into its headline: "FIFl HURLS CUPS AND SALAD AT NEWSPAPER MEN." The Tribune account, a copy of which had to be toned down for the Tribune's New York offspring (Daily News), gloated over "the pottery barrage and the volley of language which accompanied it?language familiar to the gaudy-sashed lumberjacks but seldom heard at social functions." There was a besmirching leer in the Tribune's subhead: "Four Trucks of Booze." And when the bride...
...Elizabeth City, N. C., happened an accident, result of a practical joke, the account of which in the local newspaper was so quaint that the Journal of the American Medical Association reprinted it last week among...
...Tonics & Sedatives."* The reprinted account...
...book contains an emotional foreword by U. S. Ambassador to France Myron Timothy Herrick; and an account of the Lindbergh receptions in Europe and the U. S. (entitled "A Little of What the World Thought of Lindbergh") by Lieut. Commander Fitzhugh Green of the U. S. Navy, able journalist...
...Bottomley and numerous faithful servants greeted "the master" at his home in Dicker, Sussex while an old gardener hobbled down to tell the delighted villagers that their squire-was out of jail. " 'E's a ticket o'-leave-man, still, though," said the gardener sadly, "the Marster, on account 'e is out o' jail two years early, 'as to put in 'is ticket to them? every month!" Soon the villagers hung out flags and other tokens to honor open-handed Squire Bottomley...