Word: brownings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Burton, Fort, Albert Johnson, A. T. Smith; Amelita Galli-Curci, Christopher Morley, Emil Fuchs, Henry Ford, Thomas Alva Edison, Emory R. Buckener, George W. Wickersham, Louis Marshall, Elihu Root Jr., George Eastman; Michael Idvorsky Pupin, Will H. Hays; Secretaries Work, Wilbur, Jardine; Postmaster-General New; Assistant Secretaries Mills, Robinson, Brown; Governors Fuller of Massachusetts, Spaulding of New Hampshire, Green of Michigan, Brewster of Maine; the Hearst...
...reasons would have curdled blood-or milk. The Department of Commerce was "honeycombed with politics." The country had seen "an ex-city political boss [meaning Walter F. Brown of Toledo] picked up in Ohio and made Assistant Secretary of Commerce." This man was now running the Hoover campaign in Ohio. Therefore, "the campaign of Mr. Hoover for President is being paid for to a large extent out of the Treasury of the United States...
Four years ago, while underworldly Mayor Edwin J. Brown of Seattle was away, the president of the Seattle City Council, Mrs. Bertha Knight Landes, wife of Dean Landes of the University of Washington and sister-in-law of President Emeritus David Starr Jordan of Stanford University, stepped in as acting mayor and "closed the town." The town had needed closing so badly that the Better Element was very pleased with Mrs. Landes. In 1926, it elected her Mayor of Seattle by a 5,000-vote majority...
...Described. "His regular, curved eyebrows are arched high above liquid black eyes without visible pupils. His eyes are of remarkable mobility and refraction to light-quick, intense eyes. ... He is short, not more than five feet five. When I saw him he was dressed in a uniform of dark brown with almost black puttees, immaculately polished; a silk red-and-black handkerchief knotted about his throat; and a broad-brimmed Texas Stetson hat, pulled low over his forehead and pinched shovel-shaped. Occasionally, as we conversed, he shoved his sombrero to the back of his head and hitched his chair...
...hurlers was a drawing of Charles Augustus Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis bearing the caption: "Lindbergh was the 67th man to make a non-stop flight over the Atlantic Ocean." Three thousand indignant letter-writers demanded that Mr. Ripley apologize. He calmly informed them that Alcock and Brown made a nonstop flight between Newfoundland and Ireland in 1919, that 31 men were aboard the English dirigible Rj4 on its trans-Atlantic flight in 1919, that 33 men were aboard the German Z^-j (Los Angeles) on its trip from Germany to Lakewood...