Word: elks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...once a word that lubricated the jaws of the nation. Newspapers screamed it, preachers damned it, Mr. Average Citizen swallowed it and was shocked. That was back in 1923 when the Senate was airing the Teapot Dome and Elk Hills oil scandals of the Harding Administration. Soon the tumult died, the people forgot, and the wheels of justice began to churn ponderously...
...Government has already won in both the Federal District Court at Los Angeles and in the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals at San Francisco, in its other civil suit to annul Edward L. Doheny leases of the Elk Hills naval oil reserves in California. Last week this case went before the Supreme Court for final decision...
...extremely married, prosperous. Clothes - standard, brown or gray; white piping in vest. (He would feel naked without fountain pen and silver pencil in vest pocket.) Neck-tie-purple knitted or tapestry with stringless brown harps among blown palms; snakehead stickpin with opal eyes. Jewelry-Boosters' Club lapel button; elk-tooth watch-chain pendant. Spectacles-huge, frameless, with gold ear-crooks. Shoes-black, laced, uninteresting.-ED. Pessimist...
Died. W. T. Brinson, 64, "world's biggest Elk"; at Waycross, Ga., of apoplexy. Elk Brinson's 600 pounds necessitated special chairs, special bed, special vehicle, special coffin, ten pallbearers...
...national Elk headquarters is a memorial to Elks who served in the War. Representing an investment of $3.10 for each of the 800,000 members of the brotherhood, the memorial is a structure "embodying beauty and permanence, one of the finest memorials in honor of the heroes of the War." Under a keystone chiseled with the inscription, THE TRIUMPHS OF WAR PERISH-THE TRIUMPHS OF PEACE ENDURE, bronze doors open through a colonnade into a circular hall containing twelve windows and four niches in which statues personifying Charity, Justice, Brotherly Love and Fidelity will soon be enshrined. The building faces...