Word: errand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Flood over the farmlands of its basin, plus the power of many a steamboat. Mayor Thompson literally took the Mississippi Flood at its crest. He was cruising downstream with brass bands to popularize the Lakes-to-Gulf waterway when the rains descended. He changed his commercial cruise into an "errand of mercy," swung Chicago and himself into leadership of the flood-control movement, by no means neglecting to keep the Lakes-to-Gulf project stoked up and steaming along behind...
Included in the program is a Chinese fairy tale in which a willow tree goes out of its way to help a princess in distress. The tree bears one banana to appease the wrath of an angry mandarin, and die immediately after accomplishing its errand of mercy...
...decorator made known his errand at the Lihme apartment building to a suavely superior individual in grey livery, John Healy, stalwart doorman; and was formally admitted. He ascended to the Lihme floor, entered the apartment, halted, gazed awestruck. Gulping with astonishment he called back the elevator man, who summoned blue arms of the law, who brought detectives and newsgatherers in their train. Soon the Lihme apartment-once imposing, now dismaying-was filled with a buzz of talk, excited, threatening, incredulous, ominous. With the aid of stalwart Doorman Healy whose front changed from polite surprise to bitter penitence, the time...
...excitement lapsed a personage strode aboard. He received a round of cheers from 3,000 louts, touts and riffraff, who had gathered to see middleweight boxer Mickey Walker aboard the Berengaria, and supposed that the personage,Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York State, had come on the same errand. He had not. Kindly, he had come to say goodbye to James Ramsay MacDonald. They had never met, but Mr. MacDonald had expressed keen regret that illness made it impossible for him to shake the Governor's hand at Albany. Instead they met and immediately parted aboard the Berengaria...
...Lowries, when, last week, its author, Paul Green, received a 1927 Pulitzer Prize for his longer work, In Abraham's Bosom. But it was to Mr. Sampson by Charles Lee and The Delta Wife by Walter McClellan, to The Immortal Beloved by Martia Leonard, and The Fool's Errand by Eulalie Spence, that prizes of $200 were given for intrinsic dramatic merit...