Word: firming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With him was Mrs. Stimson, quiet, self-effacing, always loyal to her husband's ascending career. As Mabel Wellington White of New Haven, Conn., the new second lady of the land married Statesman Stimson in 1893 when he was just entering Elihu Root's law firm and long before he became a statesman. In Manila last year she appeared at a state function in Balin-tawak (native costume). Being second lady holds no social terrors for her. She was well-schooled in official society as the wife of President Taft's Secretary...
...asset the most magnetic personality in the fight game today. Dempsey proved as much when he rushed into the breach upon Rickard's death and by sheer ballyhoo turned the Sharkey-Stribling bout in Florida from a certain failure into a financial success. The Dempsey-Fugazy firm will begin with a lightweight championship battle−Sammy Mandell, the title holder, probably against Ray Miller of Chicago−to be held in Detroit, June 6. The Messrs. Dempsey and Fugazy say they will build themselves a coliseum comparable to Madison Square Garden within a year...
...week the infinite capacity of Mr. Lloyd George for chicanery, the Empire seemed to pause on the brink of quite appalling possibilities. In 1924 the Liberal Party held a similar balance of power between Conservatives and Laborites, but in those days, the helm of Liberalism was steadied by the firm hand and moral weight of the Earl of Oxford and Asquith, now dead (TIME., Feb. 27, 1928). Today there is no force within the Liberal Party able to keep Little David from staging his own particular brand of rip-roaring Taffy Welshman's holiday...
What is a good egg? One that has a thick jelly-like white, an upstanding yolk, a firm membrane separating white and yolk, a sheen over the whole contents...
...Other Anson G. Phelps descendants include: Anson Phelps Stokes, former Secretary of Vale University; Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes, architect of the firm of Howells & Stokes; James Graham Phelps Stokes, who was a presidential elector on the Populist ticket in 1904, married to and divorced from Rose Pastor, social worker: Harold Phelps Stokes, newspaper man and former secretary to Herbert Hoover. Ansonia, Connecticut, is a namesake of family's founder...