Word: byword
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only was he Russia's best pianist, but also the composer of three operas, a symphony, two piano concertos and a sheaf of smaller and more popular operas. One of these, the "Flatbush" Prelude in C Sharp Minor, had already swept the world, made his name a byword among people who never went near a concert hall...
Albert John County at 19 got a job as clerk with the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. He soon knew more about its history than any other employe and "Ask County" became a Pennsylvania byword. In 1920 the hardworking, good-natured Irishman was elected a director of the road. For the past nine years he has been Vice President in charge of Finance and Corporate Relations. Today, white-haired Albert County, 67, may well hold more directorships (121) than any other U. S. businessman, is famed for his judgment of the capital market-he invariably picks the right moment to float bond...
...five years of clodhopping, the Agricultural Adjustment Administration has trod many a sore toe. But perhaps the most legitimate resulting howl has been that of the American Automobile Association. Reason: the Association's copyrighted insignia, AAA, a motorists' byword since 1902, has since 1933 been plowed under by the New Deal's AAA. Last week, South Carolina's "Cotton Ed" Smith, Chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee but no friend of the New Deal, had before the Senate a bill authorizing Secretary of Agriculture Wallace to "select and make public a new name for ... the Agricultural...
...Jenkintown, the Philadelphia suburb near which they live, the Bryans' gracious hospitality is a byword and to both gentry and tenantry alike Mr. Bryan is known as Big Hearted Joe. He hasn't got any St. George in the middle of his name, either. You people have a lot to learn about Joe Bryan...
...toughest of "tough cops" in the U. S., according to connoisseurs, is Motorcycle Patrolman John Patrick Connors, whose bailiwick is small, attractive Manchester, Mass. Residents of Cape Ann, among whom the name of Connors is a byword, accuse him of being not only a superfine and arbitrary legalist but a misanthrope who hates automobile drivers. Incorruptible, Policeman Connors has been threatened on at least one occasion by an irate driver with a shotgun, and was once about to be assaulted by a burly victim in the lobby of a motion picture theatre when bystanders intervened. Truck drivers passing through Manchester...