Word: fronts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...biggest empire service, since it would enable all Canadians to see what a very satisfactory sort of man lives at No. 10 Downing Street, London, and performs the great task which Britons proudly term "muddling through." Typical of friendly Canadian comment last week was an item boxed on the front page of the Toronto Globe...
...Pontypridd, Wales, 41 years ago, Freddie Welsh was born. He fought his first boxing bout at 19, quickly stepped to the front as a great defensive artist. In 1914 he won the world's lightweight title from Willie Ritchie. His best year was 1916 when he defeated Benny Leonard, Ritchie, Mitchell, Ever Hammer, Ad Wolgast, Charlie White. In 1917 he experienced his only knockout, lost the championship to Leonard...
...under the head: "Elks" where you refer to them at their Cincinnati convention as 5,000 strong, "marching, singing, trapshooting, eating 'burgoo' [Kentucky stew], watching fire-works." I visited Cincinnati the following week and heard nothing of trapshooting, but everybody could point out to me the big hotel in front of which crap-shooting was indulged in openly and without molestation by the police authorities. Of course I was told this with a wry face - on the part of the Cincinnatians who do not ordinarily use their main streets for that sort of sport...
...Manhattan, Miss Thompson's employers grinned. She had made a great stroke. They splashed impressively on their front page about the celebrated novelist who was turning "reporter for a day" for the Post. They primed the Post's readers for some stories of strife such as had not been written since Richard Harding Davis went to Cuba...
...sign of national health that people are preferring this year larger designs and more pronounced colors. Yellows are coming to the front, tending to make oranges of reds. The stifling effect of great buildings and small apartment rooms is being offset by the use of scenic papers...