Word: augustus
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...general applause. Latin correspondents sent home many a personal item such as that El Presidente speaks English with a marked, nasal Yankee twang. Many wrote home also the story of how a large, Delegate-filled hotel had hung above its bar pictures of Gerardo Machado, Calvin Coolidge and Charles Augustus Lindbergh. A Cuban policeman saw the pictures, sternly reminded the bartender that the U. S. is dry, rapped out an order. Thereafter the likeness of Col. Lindbergh hung alone...
...choice, tangy naval skipper is Rear-Admiral Ernest Augustus Taylor, 52, blunt, peppery and retired into politics. As Commander of the battle cruiser Renown he carried Edward of Wales to Canada (1919) and to Australia and New Zealand (1920). Smart Americans have met Admiral Taylor in Manhattan as the guest of Art-Tycoon Otto Kahn...
Therefore aristocrats of several continents harkened and were diverted, last week, when Ernest Augustus Taylor flayed at a Conservative rally in London the motives which caused U. S. President Calvin Coolidge to convene his recent, abortive Naval Limitations Parley at Geneva (TIME...
...lovers journeying last week to Manhattan from Cleveland, Toledo, Detroit, Cincinnati* and other less important art centers were pleasantly aware that they would be able to scrutinize the works of famed English painter Augustus E. John at the Anderson galleries. Scanning 99 of his pictures, mostly portraits of famed persons, it would be possible for them to decide whether he was, as many critics have urged, a proper heir to the glory and prestige of famed John Singer Sargent...
...Second School will be handicapped at the Conference by the fact that none of its representatives will have the rank of a Chief Executive, whereas the First School will be strengthened by the prestige of President Calvin Coolidge and by the primeval emotion which Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh is expected to produce by landing at Havana while the Conference is assembling...