Word: edgar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Edgar Allan Poe once published a triumph of the imagination entitled "The Balloon Hoax," purporting to tell the tale of an enterprising newspaper's fictitious account of a balloon crossing the Atlantic. Poe was a dreamer; he wrote his little fancy for certainly no more sordid motive than profit. Today's dreamers spoof with "The Spokesman Hoax," with the ignoble design of evading responsibility- nothing more. Gentlemen breakfast, then naturally desire to know what the Chief Executive thinks, for example, about increasing, by Congressional legislation, acreage on Philippine rubber plantations. What do gentlemen read?". . . The Spokesman...
...each. At Luling, a small oil town of south central Texas, on an upper fork of the Guadalupe river, there was a wild rush to buy new automobiles. The United North & South Oil Co. of the locality had just been sold for $12,100,000, of which its Promoter Edgar B. Davis was giving away in bonuses $2,000,000. Some individuals received as much as $200,000 each...
...President at last rid his mind of appointments to the U. S. Tariff Commission and the new Railway Mediation Board. For the Commission he found a suitable farmer, Sherman J. Lowell of Fredonia, N. Y., onetime National Grange president; and Edgar B. Brossard of Utah, already serving on the Commission under a recess appointment. To the Board he added Carl Williams, Oklahoma Democrat, farmer, stockman, editor. The other railway mediators: Representatives Samuel E. Winslow of Massachusetts; onetime Senator Edwin P. Morrow of Kentucky; Gloss-brenner W. W. Hanger of Illinois, public member of the old Railway Labor Board; Hywel Davies...
...grows in him. Editors, recognizing his ability, are irritated by his indolence, then struck foolish and speechless by the impersonal tolerance and good Humor with which he takes his leave. Openings are plentiful, for he can pump a column into a gorgeous political balloon and, modeling his style after Edgar Poe's, turn off fiction serials that harrow most satisfactorily. By sheer imperturbability he proceeds on up to the Brooklyn Eagle's staff, departing, when his Abolition feelings get too vigorous for his employers, to take charge of Publisher McClure's new Crescent in New Orleans...
...honor societies are far from unique in nature, but at no U. S. college are inscrutable orders taken more seriously, nor have they such compelling interest for the world-at-large. At the University of Virginia there is the famed Raven, dedicated to the dark memory of Edgar Allan Poe. At Colgate there are the weird Skull and Scroll, and Gorgon's Head. University of California has its Skull and Key and its Golden Bear. Other famed senior societies: Owl and Serpent (Chicago), Iron Cross (Wisconsin), Skull and Snakes (Leland Stanford), Iron Wedge (Minnesota), Quill and Dagger (Cornell), Innocents...