Word: give
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Turnips, celery and onions were hotly discussed. Congressman Fish (New York) pleaded with the Committee to give special attention to a high duty on celery grown under glass, as many of his constituents, celery growers, were existing only on Red Cross bounty. . . . Congressman Gifford (Massachusetts) describing himself as a Cape Cod turnip raiser, wanted the rates on this commodity hoisted from 12 to 50¢ to shut out Canadian importations. Georgia's Crisp begged for better treatment of peanuts in the next tariff act. Maine's Hersey grew damp-eyed as he told of the plight of the potato producers...
...apologized for the condition of the palace. She explained that Prince Peter was playing with a coal-scuttle. Said Her Majesty: "He insists on playing with coal, mud, paint, and everything else he ought not to play with." Changing the subject, she added, "Like my mother, I try to give as much time to charitable and hospital work as I can; but you have no idea how many other things a queen is called upon...
...Evangeline Lodge Lindbergh, who has been teaching chemistry at the Woman's College in Constantinople the past semester, received last fortnight from the Turkish Aviation League a medal, with instructions to take it home and give it to her son, Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Medal in luggage, she headed for the U. S. Colonel Thomas Edward ("Revolt in the Desert") Lawrence, Great Britain's most celebrated spy, reputed kinsman of George Bernard Shaw, arrived at Plymouth, England, last week from India, having traveled third class under his favorite alias, "Private Shaw." In the House of Commons the Government...
Last week a challenge at ping-pong was given the formality of print. The editorial staffs of The Dartmouth and the Harvard Crimson, college dailies solemnly arranged to meet on tables at Cambridge, Mass. The Dartmouth, trepidatious, threatened to give collegiate journalistic standing to Alton Kimball ("Al") Marsters, famed Dartmouth footballer. Marsters, Dartmouth interfraternity ping-pong champion, rates no golden key for activity on the college daily, but Editor Robert Rathbone Bottome said that, if necessary, he would appoint Marsters to his staff if the Crimson pingers ponged potently. The Crimson's men complained bitterly...
...take expensive pains to give newspapers accurate medical intelligence and then to have papers garble & scarehead an announcement was the heart sickening experience of New York doctors last week. Their New York Academy of Medicine and New York County Medical Society last year set up a medical information bureau with lago Galdston as executive secretary. Last week the bureau, on the basis of reports made by 90 leading practitioners, issued to the papers a summary of 1928's medical progress. In the summary there was carefully written: "A third discovery (in cancer) is the demonstration that the combination...