Word: bigwig
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretaries Dwight Filley Davis of War and Curtis Dwight Wilbur of the Navy, and most of their assistants; Attorney General Sargent; Commandant Hanson E. Ely of the Army War College, and 100 officers; Quartermaster-General B. Frank Cheatham; Commandant John A. Lejeune of the Marines, and many another military bigwig, stepped out of motors and trains at the head of Chesapeake Bay one fine morning last week and stuffed cotton or fingers in their ears. They and some 7,000 more or less distinguished civilians were promptly greeted by the cataclysmic detonation, the boiling smoke blast and the vanishing heaven...
...Bigwig House. One Captain Jefferson Cohn, rich turfman, owner of nationally famed racehorse Sir Galahad III which beat the internationally famed Epinard ("Spinach"), snapped up for ?75,000 ($364,950) last week the residence of the Dowager Baroness Michelham at 20 Arlington Street, an Augustan thoroughfare sacred until now to the mansions of peers (TIME, Nov. 22). Since the late Lord Michelham's art treasures (Gainsboroughs, Raeburns, Romneys, Lawrences) are likewise to be sold, there hurried to view them last week, at historic "No. 20," Her Majesty Victoria Eugenie, Queen of Spain, who is visiting her cousin, the King...
...iconoclasm of Rupert Hughes, but it is equally scholarly. Mr. Hughes uses 494 pages to bring his hero to the age of 30; Mr. Woodward in 460 makes a brilliant sketch of Washington, flanked by the colonies in peace and in revolt, and many another bigwig of the Revolutionary...
...brother William; he had set out in life to be a bigwig, to be President. He achieved the bigwig part and got near enough to the White House in 1914 to marry a President's daughter, Miss Eleanor Wilson. He married her in the White House. William was not content with being Secretary of the Treasury, or even a cinema potentate; he wants to sit at a certain mahogany desk in the White House. Fortunately, he is blessed with a good wife. She shares his Presidential aspirations. She, too, would like to be back in the White House...
...slipping $15,000 to his old friend George E. "Boss" Brennan of Chicago, who as Democratic nominee opposed both Col. Smith and Senator McKinley. Said Senator Reed: "This utility giver is apparently out to land on both feet." During the week corroborating evidence was forthcoming from many a bigwig who came beneath Senator Reed's sharp eye, sharper tongue-among them: James Simpson, President of Marshall Field & Co.; Smith W. Brookhart, Iowa Republican Senatorial candidate; Chester Willoughby, secretary to Senator McKinley whom Brookhart defeated; States Attorney Robert E. Crowe (Leopold and Loeb prosecutor) ; A. F. Moore, Col. Smith...