Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hard Cure. In Kansas City, Kans., Nick Albert Isaacs confessed that he had attempted a bank robbery because he needed money to make good a bad check...
Ever since then, the reigning family of Britain has been careful to have a government official present in the royal bedchamber to witness the births of royal heirs. During Victoria's confinements Prince Albert succeeded in banishing the government man into an antechamber, but the official (usually His Majesty's Secretary of State for Home Affairs) was always called in to view the newcomer at its first gasp...
Into a Hansom. Despite the hard, rough work, the market men like it. In the old days they did well enough to don Prince Albert coats after work and ride home in hansom cabs. They still pay their workers well. Example: fillet men (who can reduce a fish to pure meat with three or four deft swipes of a knife) get up to $125 a week...
...Died. Albert Henry Stanley, first Baron Ashfield of Southwell, 73, rags-to-riches London transit mogul, President of the Board of Trade in Lloyd George's World War I cabinet; following an operation; in London. Son of an English railway worker who emigrated to the U.S. in 1879, he started out at 14 as a messenger boy in the Detroit streetcar system, rose to be manager, returned to England in 1907 to reorganize London's subways, finally (with the Labor government's help) unified the city's whole transport system into a single $1 billion public...
...dance committee, which has already sponsored affairs after the Dartmouth and Princeton games, has been divided into three groups. Freshmen in charge of publicity include John Smith, Alan Burke, David Auerbach, Albert Hart, Richard Heffron, Benjamin Balkind, Thomas Bergen, Alfred Baum, and Edgar Wilford...