Word: booths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some time later a Congressional committee presented Hero Parke with a piece of the fringe of the flag in which John Wilkes Booth's spurs caught as he leaped from the theatre box after assassinating President Lincoln...
Died. Ralph Harman Booth, 57, U. S. Minister to Denmark; of heart dis ease and a kidney ailment; in Bad Gastein, Austria. An oldtime journalist, he be came editor and publisher in 1904 of the Detroit Tribune, founded Booth News papers Inc. with his brother George G. Booth. As president of the chain he con trolled eight Michigan newspapers...
...churches were the only rallying places for the 18th Amendment. To secularize the Dry cause became the purpose of Allied Forces. Dr. Poling called it a "new deal." Among its sponsors was no long list of churchmen but such names as Thomas Alva Edison, Gifford Pinchot, Jane Addams, Evangeline Booth, Patrick Henry Callahan, Oliver Wayne Stewart, Raymond Robins, William Gibbs McAdoo, Orrin R. Judd...
When Manhattan Banker John Edward Aldred ordered holiday bathers off the private beach of his home, Ormston House at Locust Valley, L. I., they pelted him with stones. Next day a private police booth was erected on Banker Aldred's estate which is flanked by the homes and beaches of George Fisher Baker, Mrs. Henry Pomeroy Davison and John Pierpont Morgan...
Today's senior at Princeton votes women his favorite amusement, followed by the movies and drinking. Ten years ago he voted for bridge, bickering and eating. Wodehouse, Hardy and Hemingway are the oddly assorted authors he declares his favorite fiction writers, while in 1921 Jeffrey Farnol, O. Henry and Booth Tarkington best held his attention. He drinks and smokes as he used to, enjoys football to watch and tennis to play, but whereas ten years ago he valued a college letter more than a Phi Beta Kappa key, that choice is now reversed by a vote...