Word: baker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Library-Class Room Building, which will be completed during the winter will be known as the Baker Library...
...Democratic primary was handled neatly by onetime Director of the Mint Raymond T. Baker (see below). The score: Mr. Baker, 4,363; P. A. McGarren...
Pale-skinned and obviously overweight, a huge mealy fellow whose labored breathing spoke of too many days spent at an indoor occupation and whose coated ribs hinted at a diet that contained too many starches, Georges Michel, Paris baker, staggered onto the beach having beaten the world's record for channel swimming with a time of eleven hours five minutes. Stalking into a tiny bar in St. Margaret's he had his double whisky and talked about the trip. Champagne, he said, had helped him. He had felt a little seasick but that had passed. Then a cramp...
Many presumed that Henry Ford was the billionaire. Not so Columnist Arthur Brisbane, who said: "This refers, perhaps, to Mr. Rockefeller, and he doesn't know how much he is worth. . . . Ford also is a billionaire. He has the income on at least four billions. . . . George F. Baker is a billionaire, probably also Mr. [Andrew W.] Mellon. At least the properties they own are actually worth more than a billion. However, all that interests the average American . . . is, how to get a modest little million or two, invest the amount safely, then live wisely and usefully...
That night all Deutschland-toasted the name of Ernst Vierkoetter, baker, he who had swum the English Channel in 12 hr. 42 min., thereby lowering Gertrude Ederle's record by 2 hr., beating the best male time by 4 hr. Only six days before, Herr Vierkoetter had battled waves and a blinding fog for ten hours, failed to reach the Dover cliffs. Even then people wondered of what stuff this man was made...