Word: erection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with great thrift," he has explained. As early as 1915 "Umbrella Mike" was indicted for a racketeering conspiracy in restraint of trade, jailed after a five-year legal battle. One item of evidence showed that he had extorted $20,000 from Chicago Telephone Co. for permission to erect a building without strikes. After two months of his one-year sentence President Wilson pardoned him, despite a U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals opinion that the evidence in his trial proclaimed him "a blackmailer, a highwayman, a betrayer of labor and a leech on commerce." He was promptly re-elected...
...Manhattan's New York Academy of Medicine. Mrs. Hearst, who as yet has no official or honorary standing in the International College of Surgeons, but who, like her husband and their late good friend Arthur Brisbane (see p. 26) owns considerable Manhattan real estate, promptly offered to erect a Museum of Surgery to house the College's offices, assembly halls, exhibits. The establishment will be called the Millicent V. (for Veronica) Hearst Foundation...
Grey Owl's account makes these kittens sound like something out of a Walt Disney cartoon. One always walked erect, "staggering around like a decrepit old man." Another discovered he could ride on his mother's flat tail, would catch a ride whenever Jelly Roll waddled around the camp. Sometimes three kittens would ride, one passenger standing on the tail with one leg and marking time with the other on the floor, like a child scooting along on a Kiddie-Kar. Jelly Roll would pay no attention whatsoever...
...Fordham University, Father Svensson's arrival last week was eventful. The erect, twinkling-eyed Icelander turned out to be wearing the fedora hat of the late great priest-chancellor of Austria, Monsignor Ignaz Seipel, with whom Father Svensson lived in Vienna and at whose death the Jesuit was present. Fordham's Jesuits made a quick deal with their colleague, bought him a new hat and acquired Monsignor Seipel's for the University museum...
...Erect, white-mustached General Sir Bindon Blood was last week appointed Chief of the Royal Corps of Engineers by King Edward, who thereby revived a Stuart office which lapsed in 1802.† Informed of his new job Sir Bindon remarked, "I was too old to go to France when I was 72 at the outbreak of war, but I am glad that I can be of service to my country now that I am nearly...