Word: dexterous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...created much discussion, and attracted high praise and severe condemnation. Werner's "Brigham Young" treats in a light but serious manner the extraordinary story of Mormonism and one of the most extraordinary figures in American history. John Marquand has written an entertaining but slightly padded account of "Lord Timothy Dexter," the freak of Newburyport, and Isaac Goldberg an interesting and elaborate life of "The Man Mencken." Earl Grey's "Memoirs" relate, among other things, what he is willing to tell of the British foreign relations at the outbreak of the War. Dr. Harvey Cushing has written an exhaustive and pleasant...
...Authors. Joseph P. Marquand fellow-townsman of Lord Timothy Dexter, took rank in U. S. letters with Black Cargo, a well-told tale of the slave trade. His present work, eked from scanty material, suffers slightly from padding but maintains a sardonic flavor well suited to the subject...
...other Cooper, Engineer Dexter P., sits on a forest of blue prints, surrounded by draftsmen and tidewater inspectors, in an office on Campobello Island near the head of the Bay of Fundy. About the island and up into bottlenecked bays, the fabulous tides of Fundy swirl in and out unceasingly, marking a difference of 27 feet between flood...
Died. Mrs. Frances J. Holmes Copeland, 81, mother of Royal S. Copeland, junior U. S. Senator from New York; in Dexter, Mich...
Soon the dirge that is sung (superstitiously) for all medalists, went up. Russell Martin of Chicago dogged Dexter in his first-round match, let him beat himself with three putts at the 18th green...