Word: blonds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Assistant City Editor Arthur F. Spaeth of the Cleveland News (published by big, blond Dan R. Hanna, Jr., grandson of Mark Hanna) picked up his jangling telephone, heard a voice say: "This is Col. Lindbergh speaking." Newsman Spaeth was too surprised to hang up. He gasped, stammered, mumbled, found his wits, began to talk. As nearly as he could remember it later, the conversation ran like this...
Hubert Prior ("Rudy") Vallee, crooning, blond, Yale-graduated orchestra leader and radio idol (WEAF) was arrested for speeding on Manhattan Bridge. To the patrolman who reported him came many a letter and telephone call from indignant females of all ages...
Sleek Frenchmen, great-throated Germans, hearty Englishmen, voluble Belgians, blond Swedes, good-natured Austrians, ill-tailored Czechs, pompous Italians, hungry Letts, solid Dutchmen, bland Danes, swarthy Poles, incomprehensible Lithuanians, dour Spaniards, excitable Serbs, fish-eating Finns, bony Norwegians, polyglot Swiss, egregious Estonians and 100% Americans-all these to the number of 4,000 assembled last week in Berlin. Greatest of them all were the Americans, 1,000 in number. They were most plentiful because they considered themselves and are considered the world's foremost exponents of the meeting's subject-advertising...
Eight youths from Browne & Nichols, Cambridge, Mass. preparatory school, responded to the shrill yawps of a blond 13-year-old coxswain last week and won the Thames Challenge Cup in the Henley Regatta, second highest English rowing honor.* Not since 1922 when Walter Hoover of Duluth won the Diamond Sculls, famed single scull race, had the U. S. had so large a share in the glory that is Henley victory...
...Tall, blond and 15, John Davison Rockefeller left his small-town family in Parma, Ohio, and went north to Cleveland. There he paid $1 a week for board. He shot no pool, drank no beer, sang no barbershop ballads, ogled no wenches. He satisfied his social needs in the Erie Street Baptist Church. There he would memorize hymns and Scripture passages, play clerk to the trustees, mingle with solid people, spend little. A sanctimonious social life satisfied him, but high school did not. Though nattered by his academic nickname, "The Deacon," he was lured early by Business. Leaving school...