Word: curtise
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The necessity for such a drastic step ended when President Wilson was returned by a margin of eleven electoral votes. To Secretary Tumulty President Wilson expressed his belief in a parliamentary form of government which, in a crisis, falls as soon as it has lost popular support. Up to this...
As usual last summer the gorgeous yacht Lyndonia dominated the crowded little harbor at Camden, Me. But for the first season in many years the yacht's owner, aging, ailing Publisher Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, did not dominate the Camden social scene. He remained at home, out of sight...
Comparatively inactive in Curtis Publishing Co., snowy-bearded Publisher Curtis, 82, became more quiescent following the death of his wife last May (TIME, June 6). He, too, suffers from a heart ailment. Although he did take himself to Joseph Early Widener's "millionaire dinner" last month (TIME, Oct. 24...
It was not surprising when aged Mr. Curtis resigned last week as president of Curtis Publishing Co. (Satevepost, Ladies' Home Journal, Country Gentleman), accepted the board chairmanship. So unsurprised was Philadelphia by the news that no newspaper there mentioned it-not even Curtis' own-except the tabloid Daily...
Full-bearded Baptist John Everett Clough (1836-1910) scorned religion until he was 22, then went to India and built up social and evangelistic organizations which lasted because their roots were native. Presbyterian Dr. James Curtis Hepburn (1815-1911), slight and shrivelled, mastered Malay and Chinese, was for 33 years...