Word: grand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...glamor of railroading is summed up in two words-Casey Jones. Mention these words to any engineer, fireman or roundhouse worker, and he will immediately be your friend. If he doesn't start singing, he will tell you a pack of grand stories...
...Historical Society and I might add James Leonard Paine was of the Harvard Class of '81, and concerning our two lady members Miss Carolyn H. Saunders is the daughter of a Harvard graduate and Mrs. Mary I. Gozzaldi the mother of two sons both graduating in 1914 and the grand-daughter of Samuel Batchelder, Esq., many of whose descendents are recorded in the Harvard Quin-quennial including Samuel Francis Batchelder, Class Secretary of the Class of 1893, formerly secretary of the Cambridge Historical Society, and known to many Harvard graduates for his charming and accurate "Episodes in the past history...
William Collins Whitney was his tutor in Wall Street and the first of his grand associates. At the time when Manhattan light and transit interests were consolidated, he became the ally of Jay Gould, Samuel J. Tilden, P. A. B. Widener, and had as counsel, Paul Drenner Cravath and Elihu Root. He helped elect a Mayor of New York, and did more than anyone else to secure President Cleveland a second term in the White House. He fought the Seaboard Air Line Railway until he beat it and he helped launch the Southern Railway. In one of his most notable...
...greenbacks in a little black bag. When Drew thereupon double-crossed his juniors in a dicker with the commodore, Fisk and Gould cut loose upon an independent career of buying railroads, Tammany judges, and gold. On the famous Black Friday, 49 years ago, they cornered gold in a grand scandal of disaster. Fisk "went in" to save his partner, but Gould took cunning advantage of the generous gesture, ruined debonair Fisk, and saved himself...
...further fancied himself as impresario, sank millions in grand opera (conveniently in the same flamboyant building with his Erie offices); and millions more for French farce and Shakespeare at the "Boudoir Theatre." By way of advertisement, he filled his splendid barouche-three white horses pulling on the right, three black horses on the left-with buxom wasp-waisted actresses in picture hats. But his mistress refused to. believe it mere advertisement, cuckolded him with his best friend-a double-dealing popinjay-and broke his heart. The popinjay, balked in blackmailing Jubilee Jim, shot him dead. Tammany-Boss Tweed...