Word: astors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...came from Italy some 40 years ago, Carlo Salvatore Cicero, with shears and razors; a barber, aged 16. He found work in the old Astor House and ran a shop of his own in Pearl Street after hours. It was a heyday of whiskers; one's pompadour was as important as one's politics...
...James Morton has the laugh on Lady Astor," said A. J. ("Emperor") Cook, Secretary of the British Coal Miners' Federation, returning last week to London from a triumphant visit to Moscow (TIME...
...James Morton," continued "Emperor" Cook to newsgatherers, "asked me to pay his respects to Lady Astor who so kindly paid his passage to Russia.* As a skilled worker, Morton is getting $20 a week - $2.50 more than his last wage in England. He says he can save $5 a week, whereas he never quite earned enough to make ends meet at home...
...Times, Lord Northeliffe achieved his greatest ambition by purchasing it in 1908. However to his eternal credit Major John Jacob Astor, brother of Viscount Astor, purchased the Times from the Northcliffe estate (1922), restored ita long and honorable independence, and has transferred its control in perpetuity to a board on which it is hopei will always sit the Lord Chief Justice and the Governor of the Bank of England...
...completion of that play my right hand (probably frightened at the sight of my calligraph) gave out,' said I, 'and I have ever since had to write with my left.' The MS., which fetched $1,025, was auctioned by Major Hon. John Jacob Astor, Chairman of the London Times Publishing Company; and William Harrison, who has been buying up London illustrated newspapers, offered him $25,000,000, 'if you are prepared to include the Times.' Sir Harry Lauder cabled to ask whether medals went with...