Word: fifthly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Death came last week to Chauncey Mitchell Depew, after-dinner orator, optimist, railroad lawyer, spectator of U. S. national affairs since the Mexican War, aged 94 years less three weeks. A bronchial infection, picked up after a winter in Florida, turned into pneumonia in Manhattan. Two bishops and a Fifth Avenue rector officiated at the funeral service. Thousands of dignitaries attended or despatched their respects...
...common water buck which he killed so that he might give them to the Natural History Museum at Rochester. N. Y. Those will be trivial gifts to the community which he has already endowed with a theatre, a school of music, a philharmonic orchestra (it has just finished its fifth season), and, source of all, an industry...
...Loree has objected to the four system railroad plan of the others, fearing that the interests of his railroads (Delaware & Hudson, Wabash) would be harmed. Therefore he proposed to arrange certain small eastern roads into a fifth system, and so astute a railroad financier is he that the heads of the other four temporized with him. Mr. Atterbury became his ally. Last week Mr. Atterbury, who presided at the executive meeting in the Pennsylvania Station, announced that certain compromises agreed to by the N. Y. C., B. & O. and C. & O. sufficiently protected the Pennsylvania's interests, that...
James M. Cox Jr., Yale student, son of James Middleton Cox, thrice Governor of Ohio (1913-15, 1917-19, 1919-21) and defeated Democratic candidate for the Presidency in 1920, drove his automobile up Fifth Avenue, in Manhattan. So rapidly did he drive, with such reckless daring, that he hit one Peter Lorenzo, a laborer, and knocked him into the air. Policemen gave chase to James M. Cox Jr., for he did not slack his pace. They fired revolvers into the air and at the fugitive. Dodging and twisting through the traffic, James Cox hurtled through Manhattan, ignoring all traffic...
...third. "Where did that fine horse stumble?" said the King of Afghanistan to the Countess Dejumilhac. "My God, I don't know," said the Countess Dejumilhac, "I was saying the Lord's Prayer with my back to the track. I guess she fell about the fifth time I got to 'forgive us our trespasses...