Word: countryman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Finland's turn again. First Willie Ritola spurned the pack of 3,000-metre steeplechasers and set his second world's record. Katz, his countryman, followed close...
...although it represented a Yankee peddler as a thief, it stirred a Northern audience so deeply that the tournament management had to keep the curtain down to make them go home. The cast consisted of Julia Hogan, Louise Bond, Joe Peel and Louis Quince (who appropriately played a sour countryman...
...Countryman's other distinctions include teaching in Aurora, Ill., Racine, Wis., and Stoneville, N. C., two unsuccessful attempts to get into Congress, an executive secretariat of the "American League of Young Americans" and an unpublished novel, The New Regime. As a novelist he prefers the nom de plume of Fred C. Putnam, for fear that the publication of his novel would! injure his chances for the Vice Presidency. It is understood that the plot of his novel is as follows...
Into the office of a Manhattan newspaper walked a gentleman who said that he was Carl Chapin Countryman, that the Republicans would sweep the country in 1924, that President Coolidge would be reelected, that C. C. Countryman would be elected Vice President. His principal reason for the last statement was that, like Calvin Coolidge, hi? own initials...
...remarkable man. He has a habit of beating T. R. Ill at golf; he spends home-like evenings with his family devoted part to study periods and part to "an hour of social intercourse" before retiring; he has a cousin, Fred C. Putnam (the gentleman whose name Mr. Countryman prefers as nom de plume) who is his double; and he has a charming foster daughter, Frances...