Word: branch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...obtained no reaction to his trout flies. "No luck" he said. "Let's go where there are some fish." ¶ In Burlingame, Calif., thejustice-of-the-peace waived a warrant, issued in 1925, for the arrest of Herbert Clark Hoover. Charge: motoring with glaring headlights. ¶In West Branch, Iowa, a Mrs. Addie Clark showed a newsgatherer a scrawled schoolday note in her album: "To Addie: "Let your days be days of peas, "Slip along as slick as greese...
...batted well. He made an enemy, Bill Hinchman, Pittsburgher, and came near fighting with him every time he saw him; he made many friends, some of them newspapermen who spread his name across their pages. In 1925 the Cardinals were doing badly; early in June Manager "Sunday School" Branch Rickey was ousted, Hornsby was made manager. Except that his face and hands were cleaner, he still looked much the same as he did when he played in Hugo-wiry and compact, jutting jaw, small eyes, his upper lip too short to cover his strong, uneven front teeth. The New York...
...this apparently innocent extension, magnates saw pregnant and disquieting possibilities. At Connellsville, the P. and W. Va. branch will connect with the Western Maryland road, forming what may develop into a new through route from Lake Erie and the steel producing country to Baltimore, via the Wheeling and Lake Erie and possibly the Wabash. All eyes were focused on a Cleveland coal producer,* owner of the P. and W. Va., 45% stockholder in the W. and L. E. Was Frank E. Taplin to be the successor of Leonor Fresnel Loree, reviving the carefully laid bogey of a fifth trunk line...
...searching probe into revenues, costs, competition. They listened to contradictory advices. How should the railroads view the competition of motor trucks and busses? With Alarm, declared M. B. Lambert, transportation salesmanager for the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co., pointing to decreased equipment orders, decreased business for local, branch line, short-haul services. With Satisfaction, retorted Interstate Commerce Commissioner Frank McManamy, insisting that short-haul freight, short-distance passenger service, brings little or no profit to railroads. With Determination, compromised R. H. Ashton, president of the American Railway Association, adding motor competition to rate reductions, rising costs, on the list...
ANYONE who is able to find tongues in trees, books, in the running brooks, sermons in stones and good in everything may derive some pleasure from "Dead Lovers Are Faithful Lovers." Likewise those who agreed with James Branch Cabell that "The Hard-boiled Virgin" is "the most profound book yet written by any American woman" may condone Miss Newman's latest tour de force as one of the minor sins of genius. To the rest of the public, including this reader, however, this new novel is as unreadable as the former one; the author has possibly proved that dead lovers...