Word: curtise
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eight years separated the births of Dwight Locke Wilbur's boys, Curtis Dwight and Ray Lyman?eight Iowa years during which the residents of little Boonesboro could foresee that Curtis Dwight Wilbur would grow to be a tall man with large hands, feet, ears and nose. Later, as younger Ray...
When Curtis Dwight was graduated from the U. S. Naval Academy, Ray Lyman was still playing Indian in short pants. But Ray Lyman was not so young that he did not know Curtis Dwight had won the Academy championship, and a handsome tambourine, for high-kicking. Being a quiet boy...
The tambourine he resolved to win was high place in the medical profession. As a freshman at Stanford, he watched Curtis Dwight begin a law career in Los Angeles ? a career that was to take him to the Superior Court bench. Ray Lyman kept his head down, studied in...
The next day appeared Paul Mallon's despatch, naming by name the 54 Senators who voted for Mr. West and the little band of only 27 who voted against. The Senate was scandalized. Vice President elect Curtis, Senate housekeeper that he is, investigated all the servants (clerks, etc.) and pronounced...
¶ Vice President-Elect Curtis leased, last week, the ten-room Vice-Presidential suite in Washington's Mayflower Hotel. Mr. Curtis's sister, Mrs. Edward E. Gann, and her husband, for 20 years a Washington lawyer, will make their home with Mr. Curtis. Since Mr. Curtis is a...