Word: frocks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...infantile State Agricultural College just founded at Ovid, N. Y. He nourished the little school with $300,000 and moved it to Ithaca. Alike in appearance to Arthur Train's venerable Ephraim Tutt, of Saturday Evening Post stories fame, Ezra's tall, spare figure, set off with frock coat and shiny stovepipe hat, was a familiar sight on the campus. His checks and gifts were also familiar--and welcome...
...partnership of these two strong men is a big story of U. S. journalism. Scott was a big, brusque, walrus-faced fighter, who read Horace for diversion and stepped up to bars in a long frock coat and high silk hat to call for a shot of straight whiskey. Pittock was barely five feet tall, with a goat-beard, cool, abstemious and calculating. In his later years he loved to ride a horse at the head of parades because it flattered his disproportionately large head and shoulders. Brought from England by his printer father when he was four, he went...
...president of International Secret Service Association Inc., famed private detective who investigated the Black Tom explosion, the Leo Frank case, the death of Starr Faithfull; by his own hand (shooting); in Manhattan. Once a group of skeptical New Yorkers hired him to rig out some of his men in frock coats, send them to the lectures of Explorer Frederick Cook to heckle him with troublesome questions...
...Inspecting the East for the first time, Cinemoppet Shirley Temple, 9, in a blue shirred frock and red hair-ribbon called on President Roosevelt squired by her father & mother, Mr. & Mrs. George Temple. The conversation ran on lamb chops, a tooth Miss Temple had lately lost, a salmon she had caught in Vancouver. Leaving the White House she exhibited her autograph book, which she considered "a very important book now." Inscribed across one whole page was: "To Shirley, from her old friend, Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...both trains staged trial runs. To court proper press attention, New York Central hired Pressagent Steve Hannagan, whose technique runs more to figures than to facts. Pressagent Hannagan's choice to set off the Century's, maiden jaunt was blonde, beautiful Model Virginia judd, who wore a frock of Twentieth Century grey. Public relations counsel for Pennsylvania was Ivy Lee, Inc., trained in less frivolous accounts like the Rockefeller interests. Counsel Lee countered with solidity: Sophie Tucker...