Word: forrester
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Davis all her life; Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard, cast in an obligation of honor dark and ringing like bronze; Albert Sidney Johnston in the loneliness of early Texas; Captain Maffitt driving precarious steamboats, heavy with cotton, and priceless with morphia and powder and gold, into the blockaded night; Nathan Forrest charging at the head of his troops, with his great sabre ground to a razor edge; Belle Boyd, who was more dangerous, more destructive, than canister or solid shot; Jeb Stuart decorated with a rose, wound in a yellow silk sash; and John Worsham, a foot soldier with Stonewall Jackson...
...White House Correspondents' Association-newsgatherers assigned to tell all the people all about their President and the White House-last week elected as their own president, Wilbur Forrest of the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune; as vice president, Carlisle Bageron of the Republican Washington Post; as secretary and treasurer, Oliver B. Lerch of the Republican Wall Street Journal...
Died. Col. John Reginald McLean of Phoenix, Ariz., mining engineer; of skull fracture, after an automobile accident; near Montecito, Calif. The accident occurred during the Colonel's honeymoon, one week after his marriage to Kathleen Burke Peabody, famed Wartime nurse, widow of the late Collar Tycoon Frederick Forrest Peabody (Cluett. Peabody...
Immediately, ayes and nays were heard throughout the land. Said Walter Eckersall, former great quarterback: "One of the worst things ever done to the game." Said Dr. Forrest C. Allen, Kansas University athletic director: "It is a good rule." The pros listed among their number Dr. Clarence Wiley Spears (Minnesota), Ossie Solem (Drake), Tad Jones (Yale), Cleo O'Donnell (Holy Cross), Ira Rodgers (West Virginia), Bob Zuppke (Illinois). The cons included Amos Alonzo Stagg (Chicago), Dick Hanley (Northwestern), Glenn Thistlethwaite (Wisconsin), Dr. Frank W. Cavanaugh (Fordham...
Last week, however, this failure was at least freed from any suspicion of fraud. Forrest Adair Sr., Forrest Adair Jr., Frank Adair and E. A. Erwin, officials of the bankrupt firm, were acquitted of using the mails to defraud in connection with the building of three southern hotels which never were completed. Stockholders in these projects lost nearly $3,000,000. After a month's trial, a jury decided that the Adair failure was legitimate...