Word: clevelands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cleveland, Ohio...
Died. Henry S. Pickands, 53, of Cleveland, Great Lakes coal, ore and shipping tycoon (Pickands, Mather & Co.); in his Cleveland office; of heart attack...
...Grover Cleveland Alexander, 42, oldtime National League baseball pitcher, stalked last week to the pitcher's box in Baker Field, Philadelphia. It was the eighth inning of the second game of a double-header between Philadelphia and St. Louis. Philadelphia had won the first game. Philadelphia was leading now, 9 to 8. Philadelphia, for whom he had pitched well for seven years, had in 1918 released Pitcher Alexander to Chicago, whence in 1926 he went to St. Louis. But there was another, keener reason why Pitcher Alexander wanted to pull this game out of the fire, which he proceeded...
...Cleveland, Batsman George Herman ("Babe") Ruth of the New York Yankees propelled the 500th home run of his American League career. To a country youth who retrieved the ball he gave $20 and a new ball autographed...
...works of Sinclair Lewis, who lately sojourned in Germany with éclat. As advertising goes, the Foreign Minister's wife could have asked for nothing more explicit than this gathering of U. S. women from New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Los Angeles. Dallas, St. Louis, Milwaukee, Cleveland. It was equally edifying for the U. S. ladies to meet the wife of a Foreign Minister, no hausfrau, but a young, elegant, cosmopolite, English speaking Jewess, a woman equipped with the conversation of the polite world, equal to parlor or nightclub...