Word: got
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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About 38 years ago, a young man from Vermilion County, Ill., just graduated from DePauw University, went up to Chicago to practice law. He was a stocky, cheery, vigorous lad and got along very well. Before long he met one of the bright young men who had been associated down East with Thomas Edison in his electric-lighting companies. This young man, a short, brisk little Britisher named Samuel Insull, organized a Chicago Edison Company. The lawyer from Vermilion County, whose name was Roy Owen West, became Mr. Insull's attorney and put some money into the company. When...
...interview Painter Max was asked to state the secret of his success. Replied he with a twinkle: "Thrashings. In my youth my father thrashed me and later the critics. The best thing that ever happened to me was that I got so many hidings. Art must be the expression of personal experience...
...School, Southboro, Mass.; to Mrs. Emily Davies Vanderbilt of Manhattan, who last June, in six minutes, divorced William Henry Vanderbilt, son of the late Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt who perished on the Lusitania; in Manhattan. In 1921 Mr. Thayer was in Paris. It is related that he, poor, got to Europe by traveling steerage with a silk hat and no ticket...
Elected. Dr. James Harvey Robinson (The Mind in the Making), of Manhattan; to be President of the American Historical Association. A campaign was announced to raise $1,000,000 for historical research, the money to be got under the direction...
...Lawrence F. Jones! First they shut off his power, but his store remained well lighted. The Edison Co. appealed to the Department of Water, Gas and Electricity, supposing that Lawrence Jones was stealing current to illuminate his store. Though his store remained lighted, no one could tell where he got the current. At last, the Brooklyn Edison Co. had Lawrence Jones arrested. He proved himself innocent of theft and went...