Word: glassful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...loans in the Mellon bank while he was still in his 'teens. Before he was 30, he was charged with administering his father's whole considerable estate. Thereafter he ruled and expanded an industrial empire constructed of steel, railways, oil, coal, electricity, insurance, ships, bridges, plate glass, aluminum. In 1920, this empire of Mellonia was dominant in a sphere of industries with some...
Chair Talk. To the editors of Liberty went a letter (published last week) from Senator Carter Glass, 70, of Virginia. It read: "There has been left on my desk a copy of Liberty, dated April 28, containing what purports to be an interview with me by Sidney Sutherland on the subject of the Fifteenth and Eighteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States. I desire to warn you that the purported interview, almost from the beginning to the end of it, is inaccurate and largely fictitious. ... I have usually managed to think and talk as a gentleman should...
...life the sombre frock-coated figure of the Chancellor, characteristically enlivened by the fact that he had thrust his large thumbs into the armholes of his waistcoat and expanded his chest with the confidence of a pouter pigeon. Finally Cartoonist Wales had sketched in heroic proportions the glass containing a refreshing beverage-said by some to be whiskey & soda-without which Chancellor Churchill seldom addresses the House at any length...
...which will preserve the natural contour of his face and figure for, it is alleged, 100 years. At first, when he was put to rest in the Caruso chapel in the Naples Cemetery, his visage was exposed to view, for any strangers to. see. Six months ago, however, the glass top of the casket was replaced by an opaque...
Tonight's gathering will be the second of its kind in Harvard history. Four years ago some 300 students gathered and after two energetic evenings, nominated Carter Glass of Virginia...