Word: frequenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...intelligent, with a master's degree in English from University of Chicago, "Geno" Herrick broke into the Tribune in 1918. Her most spectacular job was in 1921 when she crossed the Atlantic steerage, disguised as an Irish immigrant, went through the Ellis Island mill, reported her experiences. A frequent guest at diplomatic dinners, attractive "Geno" Herrick has amassed a wealth of Washington personalia which she reports in crisp, good-humored style. Excerpts from her first columns in the News...
...life with a limp, a stammer and a sense of humor. Claudius lived to thank his stars that he was not a conspicuous member of his clan. His grandmother Livia, Augustus' wife, was a woman of decided and dangerous character and her schemes for ruling the Empire made frequent use of murder. Claudius was not even allowed to marry whom he liked. The pretty girl he wanted was murdered on their betrothal day; thereafter he was given in succession a sluggish giantess and a cold-blooded socialite. Eventually he managed to divorce them both and enjoy a quiet interlude...
...many another organization. Nelson ("Bud") Talbott, Yale football captain in 1915, is president of N. S. Talbott Co., which controls Mc-Claren Ice Cream Cones, Friction Toys, and Vance Manufacturing Co. which makes steel in Pullman cars look like wood. There are 32 grandchildren who, like their parents, pay frequent visits to the matriarch in Dayton...
First choice for Commission chairman is James McCauley Landis, 34, Federal Trade Commissioner whom President Roosevelt appointed last autumn. Commissioner Landis is a frequent and welcome caller at the White House because he sees eye to eye with the President on rigid control of the entire securities business. He never let the Exchange Bill out of his sight from the time it was being drafted until it was safely past the conference committee. Lean, serious, energetic and extremely able, he was a full professor at the Harvard Law School at 29. A shining disciple of Justice Brandeis, he is regarded...
...year. In Chicago she won first place in a popularity survey among housewives. Last week Orphan Annie was being read by anxious millions, because of Daddy Warbucks. Few months ago Daddy began to worry about his business-never identified but so prodigious as to require frequent telephone calls to Singapore, Shanghai, Australia. Soon he was faced with the choice of liquidating his affairs and retiring on a pittance, or selling stock to the public on the chance of a comeback. For days he debated with himself before choosing honest poverty. But first he set aside a sum-"millions...