Word: guess
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...canal zone. From Manhattan Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis, sailed for Porto Rico; he will arrive to inspect the canal just as General Dawes ends his brief visit. What Mr. Stearns and the Congressmen saw, what Vice President Dawes a,nd Secretary Davis expect to see, few could guess. But many knowing U. S. citizens link their holiday interest in the Panama Canal with the facts that Navy officers have declared the canal indefensible in time of war a,nd the rumored plans of a new canal through Nicaragua where Adolfo Diaz sits in the U. S.-protected president...
Certainly no businessman, no bull or bear on the stock exchange would have been shrewd enough to guess that the Magazine of Wall Street, for the last 16 years, has been the work of a woman who once wanted to be a prima donna. Mrs. Wyckoff lives at Great Neck, L. I., has two daughters, wears flowers as big as her face, and is as energetic in her office as an outfielder on a windy...
...newspaper headlines throughout the country, the name Baumes had been rising to new prominence. Who, what it is-trade mark, symbol, place-many people can only guess. But in the New York Senate they know what lies behind the name: it is a man. State Senator Caleb H. Baumes, short, sparse, with drooped moustache and thin white hair, sponsored the Baumes laws, sputtered and spumed "mawkish sentiment" at critics who called them cruel, lived to see his name rise to a disembodied symbol of "punishment to fit the crime...
...carve him, too. But he's got stays inside, so I guess the damage wont show none. We aint half begun, though. There's a five-ton statute just come from London out in front now. Its too heavy for the elevator, and pretty near too big for the doors. If you ask me they should have stood this heavy stuff where they wanted it, and then built up around...
...give some Chinese jade a bath." Then a really potent epigram was coined. Suddenly turning from the tub in which the jades and vases were being bathed, he shook a pipe-stem at the Venus. "I've seen lots of signs in museums in my time, but I guess they ought to stick a 'Hands Off' sign on her all right...