Word: buffalo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...undertaking, and have contributed funds to begin the work of improvement. These include Starling W. Childs '91, of New York, who has taken a leading part in the project; Edward S. Harkness '97, of New York; Frederic C. Walcott '91 of Norfolk, Conn.; Robert W. Pomeroy '91, of Buffalo; Dr. Frank R. Oastler '91 of New York; Mrs. Henry S. Graves, of New Haven...
...Buffalo, Toledo, Cleveland, Portland, New Orleans, Pittsburgh Philadelphia, San Francisco have had a greater number of murders than in the same period...
Every year the supporters of the Gallery are rewarded for their in vestment with a free lottery of selected paintings. Mr. Swift chose the only Sargent in the Gallery, a portrait valued at $15,000. The second name was Charles Clifton, President of the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, who chose Heavy Weather, a marine painting by Irving Wiles. The third, James Parmelee of Washington, acquired Lilian Hale's Spring Reverie...
...Escadrille unanimously announced: "We will allow nothing to stop us from carrying on the work upon which we have set out." Next it painted an orange circle upon each of its planes, painted a charging black bull buffalo within, and zoomed off with more bombs. Critics admired the brushwork of Captain Lansing and Lieutenant Cousins, both well known in American-Parisian junior art circles. Captain James ("Red") Mustane's technique was declared so faulty as to have produced a sea lion instead of a bison...
...followers queried, "that ham an'egger?" They were consoled only because they had seen, in a preliminary bout, a light-heavyweight boxer whose speed and rhythm surpassed anything in the memory of some, and set others thinking of Fitzsimmons and Wolgast. For him-James Slattery of Buffalo- sports writers flatly prophesied the world's heavyweight championship. "And when he meets Berlenbach . . ." said McTigue's adherents later that evening, fortifying themselves against the dampness and their own depression in the various bars and blind tigers of middle Manhattan, "when he meets this ham Berlenbach. . ." It was fashionable...