Word: augustus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...believe the newspapers of the country, chained or unchained, ever had better editors than today, were ever edited more intelligently, conscientiously than now." ¶ Executive Editor Ik Shuman of the Brooklyn Standard-Union told how he was one of seven "ghosts" who wrote articles signed by Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Said President Walter M. Harrison of the Society: "After this ... I would be ready to believe that former President Coolidge isn't writing his own magazine articles except that I know so capable an editor as Ray Long wouldn't hire a ghost who writes as badly...
Shirley Short, U. S. Air Mail pilot; Pelletier ("Paris to Peking") D'Oisy; Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh; Lady Mary ("London to Capetown") Bailey...
...from Governor's Island. At the French Line pier in Manhattan, La Tourville docked gingerly, took aboard great men in black clothes to stand, lost in their own thoughts, about the casket. On a mulberry-colored cushion rested the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor. Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh stood there, his shoulders drooped in memory of Le Bourget, Paris, 1927. At sharp noon a bugle shrilled. Fifteen wiry French sailors lifted the coffin, carried it cautiously down the green-carpeted gangplank, through the purple-and-black draped pier to a black caisson drawn by six horses...
Died. Francis King Murray, 33, of Andover, Mass., instructor at Phillips-Andover Academy, onetime Leland Stanford footballer and trackman, son of Dr. Augustus Taber Murray, leader of the Friends Church in Washington, D. C. (attended by President Hoover); of kidney disease; in Boston. Surviving him are his two famed brothers-Robert Lindley Murray, national tennis champion in 1918, now with Hooker Electrochemical Co. at Niagara Falls, N. Y.; and Frederick ("Feg") Murray, Olympic trackman in 1920, now an able cartoonist and sportswriter on the New York...
...gibberish to most readers, Gertrude Stein is shown with a face rugged, calm, confident above a stolid mass which scarcely defines itself as a body. There are many other works by individual chisellers, Hunt Diederich, Daniel Chester French, the late Emil Fuchs, John Gregory, Malvina Hoffman, Leo Lentelli, Henry Augustus Lukeman, Edward McCartan, Eli Nadelman, the Piccirilli brothers, Lorado Taft, William Zorach. . . . If the modern U. S. lacks the glory of a sculptural tradition as deeply embedded and fertile as the Classic or Gothic, it does have a number of sincere experimentalists who keep the art from stagnation, who seek...