Word: bay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time when huntsmen oil their shotguns and go a-gunning for wild ducks. Now, too, is a time when Congressmen oil their tongues and try to escape being "lame ducks" when Congress sits after the election. This conjunction of times was a happy one for the duckhunters of Barnegat Bay, N. J., and for Representative Harold G. Hoffman. The hunters spoke to Mr. Hoffman, who smiled and spoke to Lieut. Commander H. V. Wiley of the Lakehurst Naval Air Station, who bowed (figuratively) and spoke to his naval aviators, who said nothing but proceeded to obey a new order...
...leading topics in season. He is one of the few living cartoonists who was born and raised in Manhattan. His most famed compositions were made during the War?"The Road to Yesterday" (War dragging Europe back to Barbarism) and "Damn the torpedoes?go ahead" (quoting Admiral Farragut at Mobile Bay). His "pals" are Cartoonist Cliff Sterrett ("Polly and her Pals") and Editor Bertie Charles Forbes of Forbes' Magazine, with whom he plays checkers. Cartoonist Marcus used to work for the old-time New York Herald, often illustrating the stories of a fast-and-furious red-headed court reporter named Herbert...
...forsakes the scrimmage beneath the goal posts to plunge headlong into the disorderly crush around the sausage and scrambled eggs. Undeniably it is Harvard's business to make men but whether she is to make them purely for the satisfaction of the daughters of leisure in Back Bay remains to be seen. Husbanding the golden Jane has been deplored since the time of Omar, but it may still be our weakness now. The great army of the unwed which wins its victories by conscientiously filling the stomachs of others may well take heart, for though the Senior may be sitting...
...Nominee Taft in 1908 was a President's hand-picked successor. Also like Hoover, he had never before run for a public executive office. With Roosevelt's aegis over his personal distinction, he easily beat Bryan. On a blizzardy 4th of March he drove, behind four skittish bay horses, to be inaugurated in the Senate Chamber...
John North Willys, automobileman, has an estate near Oyster Bay, Long Island. On the estate is a private beach. On the beach was found floating last week the body of a dead man. On the man was only underwear. His clothes, discovered later on the Willys beach, contained the following memo: "Sunday-Took a trip to Oyster Bay. The afternoon is sunny and cheerful. Sorry I did not bring my bathing suit, as I find quite a few bathing and enjoying it." The ill-fated intruder on Mr. Willys' private beach was identified as R. A. Richard, Manhattan salesman...