Word: dicks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...orphanages and from the Illinois Children's Home clapped their hands in delight. Once the great gathering sucked in its breath and stood up in its seats with the shivering "Ah!" that fevers a plaza de toros when the matador is tossed. This was when Vadabelle, ridden by Dick Messcrop of Port Chester, N. Y., in taking the five-foot wall at the edge of the tanbark instead of the last jump on the course, went sprawling into a group of spectators, knocking them down like dolls. But no one was hurt; Vadabelle went back to her stall. Otto...
...Ways and Means Committee of the House, preparing the revenue bill of 1926?that is, making ready for tax reduction?last week got into the doldrums. Much of its time was taken up in hearing every Tom, Dick and Taxpayer who was anxious to have the tax that fell on him abolished. There were also experts and officials on hand, but the matters with which they dealt were largely technical details...
...another with his hat off, others near the piazza, near the barn door, near the flower garden. Mrs. Coolidge, having exhausted her first roll of film, tried unsuccessfully to unload the unfamiliar German magazine. The President, appealed to, was unable to aid her. He looked about him, spied one "Dick" Sears, Boston cinema cameraman, standing among the pressmen. Catching the President's eye, up rushed Mr. Sears. He mastered the German mechanism and coached Mrs. Coolidge in its use for a moment. He was permitted to film Mrs. Coolidge as she snapped away her next half dozen negatives...
...patent-medicine makers who first exploited those two famed individuals-"Before" and "After." "Before" was always a sorry Dick indeed, with a vague crumbling face and derelict eyes; "After" was the apotheosis of dapper, life-conquering assurance. At the Yankee Stadium, New York City, last week, Paavo Nurmi reversed the parable which has long been so excellently illustrated in the contrasting personalities of Before, of After. He appeared in his sweater of robin's-egg blue to run against Alan Helffrich in the half-mile special of the Finnish-American...
...with the Cabinet. He stood at one side with Senators Butler and Watson. At one side also were Will Hays, Colonel Harvey and Frank H. Hitchcock, who last summer managed Senator Hiram Johnson's abortive attempt to take the Republican nomination. Silk hats were everywhere in the stand, even Dick Jervis, the tall, the handsome head of the White House Secret Service men, was wearing one. There were a few exceptions. Senator Pat Harrison, for example, wore a broad brimmed black felt...