Word: evens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...high forehead and prominent cheekbones. He is a great admirer of Cecil Rhodes and Dr. Jameson. He would rather be called engineer than chief or president. He has a motor boat, three yachts, six or seven homes, but has no particular hobbies, seldom accepts invitations to dinner, and even in Stockholm has become rather a legendary figure. Over the door of his office is a carved torch. In addition to his office, he has also a silent room, to which only he and the janitor have keys and in which he must not be disturbed. Unostentatious, he is not incapable...
Died. Edwin Emery G. Slosson, 64, onetime (1891-1903) professor of chemistry in Wyoming, author Creative Chemistry, director of Publisher Edward Wyllis Scripps' Science Service (news syndicate); at Washington; of heart disease. His wife, May Preston Slosson, poetess, was Cornell's first woman Ph. D. "To get even with her" he studied several summers for a Ph. D. from the University of Chicago. He was the fountain head of the modern school of journalized science, making abstruse scientific processes into simple stories...
...Descartes' foe-Libertin Gassendi, who also taught great Dramatist Moliere. As a writer, however, Cyrano was definitely minor. Yet his Journey to the Moon, despite its preciousness, was an ably fantastic novel, compound of carica ture and philosophy, and the inventive "science" in it anticipated Swift, Voltaire, Verne. Even Moliere was not above pilfering Cyrano's best comedy-scene. A beam falling from an upper story into the street released Cyrano from a life of wenches, duels, shames, brawls, intoxications, fruitless ambitions, precious vanities - all of which, save the first, he actually blamed on his nose. "Most...
...chum. President Thomas Woodrow Wilson, which still helped him approach Democratic Senators. Lobbyist Burgess had requested the dismissal of Mr. Koch because, he explained, he had put the pottery industry in "the wrong light" before the Senate Finance Committee. Mr. Koch was not dismissed, though potters carried their complaints even to President Hoover. Sugar. Frank were the avowals of Harry A. Austin, secretary-treasurer of the U. S. Beet Sugar Association, of his efforts to obtain a higher tariff on sugar as a protection to the domestic industry. He told investigators that his headquarters had spent $500,000 in seven...
...trail of the lobbyists and so important was their reluctant testimony in relation to the pending tariff bill that the Senate committee even pondered the advisability of asking the Department of Justice for a detachment of Secret Service operatives to run down clues, to bring skulking lobbyists up out of their holes...