Word: dicks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jewish war relief movement which raised $5,000,000; U. S. Jewish representative at Geneva in 1919; president since 1912 of the American Jewish Committee. Modest, retiring, Mr. Marshall never disclosed the amounts of his benefactions. Died. George Charles Jenks, 79, of Owasco Lake, N. Y., author (Diamond Dick stories, Stop Thief, In the Name of the Czar, The United States Mail); in Owasco. Twenty-six years ago Author Jenks started the Diamond Dick series, wrote 250 novels in four years, each 25,000 words long. Once he wrote a "dime novel" in three days...
...which Princeton would presumably no longer foster. More than 70 professors, preachers and elders attended. Prominent of course were Princeton faculty conservatives. Dr. John Gresham Macheru veteran of Princeton's doctrinal wars, made the opening address, said: "The old Princeton under this new board is doomed." Prof. Robert Dick Wilson told of the call from students for a school devoted to orthodoxy. Prof. Oswald Thompson Allis, editor of the Princeton Theological Review, advocated a Philadelphia suburban site for the new seminary, conveniently near the University of Pennsylvania. Later these three men agreed to leave Princeton, to teach the following...
After his successes with the Navy crews of 1920, '21 and '22, "Dick" decided to retire and he assisted his son at Annapolis and later at Columbia, until "Rich" had gotten his '"coaching-legs." From late rowing results it is evident that "Rich" now has them...
...Dear Dick: Charlie O'Malley was in last night. . . . He said he was authorized to offer $20,000,000 in cash for the Post...
...Hard-working Richard ("Young Dick") Grozier, publisher of Boston's Post, (circulation, 397,419), son of Edwin Atkins Grozier, the Post's late great Publisher, testified. He submitted a letter he had received from his managing editor, Clifton B. Carberry, ablest lobe of the Post's brain. In part the letter read...