Word: em
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Died. William ("Kid") Gleason. 67. oldtime second baseman on the famed Baltimore Orioles ("I'd let 'em slide to the bag, then kick 'em and slap the ball down on their conks"); of heart trouble; in Philadelphia. After exposure of the sale of the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati...
...There must be no drinking whatsoever," declared tight-lipped General Charles Pelot ("Fight 'Em All") Summerall, retired U. S. Army Chief of Staff, when in 1931 he assumed the presidency of The Citadel, South Carolina's military college at Charleston. General Summerall's order was at once amplified by The Citadel's Commandant, Lieut. Colonel John Walton Lang, who announced that no cadet might "carry, transport, move, hold, possess, own, have . . . receive, accept, give, offer, sell, buy, or drink" any intoxicating liquors...
...company, he is not only the biggest giver, both publicly and privately to worthwhile things, but he invariably wears a dinner jacket when the Roeblings entertain small parties and I don't recall ever seeing him in "white tie and tails," but I suppose he has 'em. Many of the important devices for which the Roeblings hold patents are the work of his brain and Washington Roebling once told me "Young Ferd is the best engineer the family ever turned out." He is reputed to be a sort of financial wizard. He has two promising sons, one already...
Only a handful of gold stocks is listed the New York Stock Exchange Best known is Alaska Juneau, of which Bear Bernard ("Sell 'em Ben") Smith is so fond that he named his horse for it. In the past eight weeks it has thrashed forward from $11 a share to $15. Homestake, one of North America's biggest mines and a bulwark of the Hearst fortune, has flared from $120 to $163. Jules Semon Bache's Dome Mines have gone from $11 to $13. Much speculation in McIntyre Porcupine a Canadian producer, has picked it from...
...foul ditch each dogma leads. Cursed be superstitious creeds, In every driven mind the weeds! There's but one liquor for the sane- Drink deep! Let scepticism reign And its astringence clear the brain! To the Cherrells, who had sound ideas on income (which they pronounced "ink 'em") but thought more of Service to the State, Wilfrid was not a catch. More, a horrid rumor about him began to be bruited about the London clubs: threatened by a Moslem fanatic in Darfur, he had turned Moslem under pressure! Letting England down, what? Worst of all, the fellow...