Word: got
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Possibly tabloid emphasis on sex and scandal has made conservatives timid of love and romance. More likely, however, appeared the theory that city editors neglected the story simply because they were late in discovering it. Had they got the story on the day of the Texas wedding it would have front-paged every paper. But it is not in their occurrence but in their telling that events age, To a man unconscious since Nov. 10, 1918, news of the armistice would be great news. To a public unconscious of the Graustein wedding this latest and best of Cinderella stories remains...
...carving-knife. That, says Author Mannin, was the genesis of 1) a scar on his wrist, 2) his animosity towards women. Aged 10, when his friend's mother embraced him he wriggled out of it. Aged 20, off at the War, when the Stroud blood in him got hot for women, his mind remained cold as cash. Aged 25, he discovered that he wanted a fortune and a blonde wife, a maker of men. When a Stroud wanted something. Destiny always took a hand; the Stroud got it. This Stroud now fixed upon one Lady Isabel. Her eyes were...
Last week Automan Henry Ford got the League of Nations into a predicament and Merchant Edward A. Filene got it out again...
...violin handed to him. But his small hands did not well adapt themselves to the instrument and when to the violin was added a piano, Engineer Kolster, rebellious, entered the Cambridge Manual Training School where he "prepped" for Massachusetts Institute of Technology. While still attending M. I. T., he got a job as assistant to the Cambridge city engineer. Most of his time was spent in driving stakes, but Engineer Kolster was proud of his position and his profession. When John Stone Stone, one of U. S. radio's experimental pioneers, offered Mr. Kolster a job in the Stone...
Birthday. Louis Wiley, 60, business manager of the New York Times; in Rochester, N. Y., where he got his start on the Post-Express. The local Press Club which he helped found in 1888 gave him a banquet. Encomiums poured in signed by Hoover, Taft, Coolidge, Smith, Roosevelt, Eastman, Pulitzer, Swope, Bok, Block, Bernstein, Cohn, Wise, Lazansky...