Word: elkhart
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
John Jacob Raskob proposed ways to bring back prosperity: i) Repeal the 18th Amendment: 2) tax beer; 3) apply a 1½% general Sales Tax; 4) balance the Budget. Through Indiana Josephus Daniels cheered for his onetime subordinate in the Navy Department, at Frankfort, Elkhart, Wabash. Muncie. Philadelphians were begged by Boston's Mayor James Michael Curley to contrast the records of Hoover and Roosevelt. A "gold brick standard'' was what the Republican Administration was on, in the words of Col. Henry Breckinridge in Richmond. Va. Up & down the Pacific Coast trooped Nebraska's Senator George...
...Chicago, Mrs. Janet Estes filed suit for divorce because her husband neglected her for picture postcards. To fill a gap in his series, he went to Elkhart, Ind., remained there a year. Last fortnight he wrote home for his passport, said he was going to Russia "to round out a memorable monument of postcards...
...Elkhart, Kan., the Singing Masters' Association convened for a "sing," tried to yodel, couldn't, was forced to abandon efforts for two hours. Cause: Too much fried chicken had been devoured prior to the songfest...
...Comfortably-built Christopher Morley lately spoke, on his "Bowling Green" in the Saturday Review of Literature, of "two stout, elderly, ruddy nabobs . . . the two rotund conductors, Tweedledum and Tweedledee" whom he, during a Chicago-to-New York trip on the Century, saw conferring on the LaSalle Street and Elkhart, Ind., platforms. N. Y. Central men are agreed that Mr. Morley must have seen Conductors Hendrix and Jefferey, of whom only one, however, might be called stout, rotund? Conductor Jefferey. (Conductor Lund may have been Tweedledee to Conductor Jefferey's Tweedledum; he is heavier than Conductor Hendrix. But between Conductors Lund...