Word: brownness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Robert Linthicum of the New York World is far better remembered for his poem on the death of Woodrow Wilson than for his Democratic outpourings in 1924. Last year Mrs. Belle Moskowitz, publicist-friend of Candidate Smith, headed the publicity committee, wrote little, got little printed. Working for the Brown Derby in Washington last year were goateed Charles S. ("Buck") Hayden of the Nashville Banner, whiteheaded Robert Moores Gatee of the Memphis Commercial Appeal. Their blunders ? for example, calling Candidate Hoover a "fat candidate from Piccadilly"?have not yet been forgotten...
Below medium height, with crinkly greying hair, stooped shoulders, prominent nose, drawly disarming voice, he writes with a sharpness and penetration that belie his mild appearance. As a political prophet he ranks low, for he alone of the major forecasters held out hope last year of a Brown Derby triumph. That, however, will be no handicap for him in his new post...
...unionists. Among famed churchmen present were Dr. Joseph Ross Stevenson. President of Princeton Theological Seminary; Yale's Divinity Dean Luther Allan Weigle; Dr. Samuel McCrea Cavert, General Secretary of the Federal Council of Churches; Dr. Daniel Alfred Poling, editor-in-chief of the Christian Herald; Dr. William Adams Brown, Vice President of Union Theological Seminary, who recently married Col. Lindbergh and Miss Anne Morrow; Bishop James Cannon Jr.; Dr. Samuel Parkes Cadman. Outstanding among laymen were Swarthmore's Philosopher-Professor Jesse Herman Holmes and President Frank A. Home of Merchants' Refrigerating Co., Methodist Board of Missions, often...
...showing of Coach Brown's men depends wholly on the improvement they have made since encamping in their Red Top quarters. There are but few of even the most optimistic Crimson backers who believe that that advance is sufficient to bring victory...
...University crew rowed three miles this morning, while the other crews took longer rows of five miles apiece. In the afternoon the first eights went to the three-mile mark trying racing starts under the eye of Coach Brown, while the Jayvees repeated the same performance shortly after...