Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...informed by a friend that Mr. Lincoln told him that he was in the White House the night of the tragedy; that his father had asked him to go, but he had refused,, being weary and wanting to go to bed; that he first knew of the affair when some one drove hastily up to the White House and informed him; that then he went immediately to his dying father; further, that, had he gone, the murder might possibly have been averted, since he, youngest of the party and entering the box last, naturally would have had a seat next...
...taken to more obvious measures. Attired in green tulle and early restoration flannels the editors were formed in double file and with file and drum marched dinfully to the tune of "Deep River". Various campus police accompanied them on horseback with loaded black jacks. The whole affair was, to be mild, the most humorous thing which has transpired in good old Ipswitch since the time that the faculty cow called on the president. Indeed, such evidences of virility and originality lead us to believe that Ipswitch need be proud of those sons of hers who by virtue...
...institution of telephone usage was a difficult, slow affair. Alexander Graham Bell had been jiggling with a contraption he was determined he would make carry the human voice when his assistant Thomas A. Watson suddenly, clearly heard: "Mr. Watson, please come here. I want you." To this phrase there was no dignity as that attached to "What God hath wrought!" the first intelligible phrase carried over Samuel F. B. Morse's first telegraph. But the two young men were so jubilant in their cheap Boston lodging house that their landlady threatened to oust them. For money to install...
Golf club officials had brought them together ? swart Walter Hagen and blond Amateur Champion Bobby Jones. No title impended; it was primarily an affair of honor between two of the keenest match-playy golfers that ever cut a divot. It was also a great resort attraction. They had set aside two Sundays to render each other satisfaction. On the first, Hagen came off 8 up after 36 holes played at Sarasota. The second Sunday found them threading the lagoons and jungled ravines of the Pasadena course at St. Petersburg (Hagen's home links this winter...
...manner creditable to himself. There were those, moreover, who hinted that the Viceroy bears the Maharaja a grudge because he would not yield a point of precedence at official functions to the former Alice Edith Cohen, now Lady Reading. Last week all the ramifications of this affair suddenly quieted...