Word: fifthly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...budget and stabilize the Hungarian crown. Though taxes in Hungary are still crushingly heavy, the cost of living has steadily declined during the Smith regime. It was anticipated that he would require 2½ years to balance the Hungarian budget. Six months sufficed him. He spent less than one-fifth of the stabilization loan...
Contempt. If the Chicago Tribune and its noisy offspring, Liberty, had their way, they would persuade ignorant readers that Stephen Decatur's ". . . our country right or wrong" is the greatest patriotic phrase ever mouthed. But executives of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church of Manhattan last week invited Dr. Minot C. Morgan of Detroit to be their associate pastor (at $12,000 yearly), he who damned that phrase as "a damnable toast of some patriotic Americans...
...second hole when Mitchell bunkered an iron shot. He won the fourth hole when Mitchell hooked a drive. He won the fifth and sixth holes with faultless golf, the tenth with a birdie. After that he was never behind again. Mitchell, quite obviously, was stewing in his own juice. Perspiration poured into his eyes; he had his caddy fetch a towel from the clubhouse, complained that he could not hold his clubs. To remedy the last evil he donned a chamois glove, but, yielding to the dim British feeling that a man who plays golf without a coat might...
Died. Louis Sherry, 71; after a long illness, in Manhattan. When he conducted his restaurant at Fifth Ave. and 44th St., many gentlemen had a way of saying to him, "I am dining 60 tomorrow," or "My daughter's dance will be on the 19th." Directions would have been a useless insult. He knew every debutante, dowager, rake, banker, and gourmet who lived in Manhattan between 1885 and 1915. He chose the wines that J. P. Morgan offered his guests. James Hazen Hyde, one winter night, gave in his restaurant a costume ball which is said .to have been...
Robert Lincoln O'Brien '91, editor of the Boston Herald, received the honorary degree of doctor of literature from Colby College at its one hundred and fifth Commencement exercises...