Word: americae
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...himself a sportsman (chiefly horses) and winters in a cream-colored house on the Florida bank of the Atlantic Ocean. Albert Davis Lasker, chairman of Lord & Thomas and Logan (erstwhile Lord & Thomas) is head of the advertising agency which numbers among its accounts American Tobacco Co., Radio Corp. of America and many another. Once an $18 a week messenger boy in a Chicago agency, he now has a private barber shop in his agency office. Every morning he seats himself in a Koch barber chair and is shaved so close that he nearly bleeds. He always tips the barber...
...while detectives were still searching for the missing banker, the half-million fraud produced another surprise. For what had Banker Waggoner done with his $495,000 drafts? Cashed them and gone to South America? Not at all. He had used the money to pay to other banks money which his Bank of Telluride owed them. He had robbed Peter (the six Manhattan banks) to pay Paul (three banks which were creditors of his bank).* Thus Waggoner had apparently not engineered his scheme for any personal profit, but had sacrificed himself for his bank, which for a long time had been...
...journalist* and a pundit honored among the cognoscenti, he was a teaching psychologist at Pennsylvania and Columbia universities. Apt was his presidency of the International Congress of Psychology at Yale last week and witty, despite length, his speech of welcome. Said he: "In so far as psychologists are concerned, America was [prior to the last 50 years] like Heaven, for there was not a damned soul there." Another Cattell truism: ''The motions of the solar system since its beginning are less complicated than the play of a child for a day." A Cattell social irritant, which excited dark newspaper head...
Three hundred years ago a band of Scotsmen, wearied of ecclesiastical feuds and tyrannous wars, sailed for America. Seeking a climate like their own they landed in Acadia, secured a grant from James I, fought the French, remained at Nova Scotia and colonized. Later some of them moved westward. Today Scottish-Canadians largely people the Dominion...
Strathspeys and Reels. Pipers could choose their piece from a list including: The Sheep Wife, Take Your Gun to the Hills, Over the Isles to America, The Rejected Lover. Winner: Piper Hector McDonald of Montreal...