Word: guys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While his friends and backers began to wonder if their "Big Bill" might not have carried a splendid idea a bit too far, Mayor Thompson remained loudly confident. "I'm a guy," he says, "with the guts to speak right out. I've been attacked, lied about and ridiculed. I may not be smart but I'm smart enough to follow in the steps of the guys that made success." First and foremost on Mayor Thompson's list of successful '"guys" is George Washington...
...Overbanked." A bank president from Sugar City, Idaho (Guy Emerson Bowerman), coined the word "overbanked" to characterize the condition of the country from that financial aspect. Urged he: "Fewer, stronger and more profitable banks." He favored consolidations and a country-wide system of chain banks as branches linked to giant parent institutions...
...seating of the crews follow: Crew P--Stroke, John Watts '28; 7, Guy Murchie '29; 6, C. E. Mason '30; 5, J. W. Dunlop '28; 4, Roger Donaldson '30; 3, C. M. Comstock '30; 2, Paul Wilson '30; bow, Amos Ames '29; cox., W. F. P. Chadwick...
...Tunney; one simple and profound, the other a mixture of bombast and cant," says one decrier of the literary note in Mr. Tunney's public statements. "A pugilist reading Hegel is about as appropriate as the dean of a woman's college singing. 'I'm Gonna Dance Wit' the Guy What Brung Me' says another. Unless he wishes to go down in history as the first champion to take an intellectual beating Mr. Tunney would do well to look to his Voltaire...
...winning crew was seated as follows: Stroke, L. D. Parker '30; 7, Guy Murchie '29; 6, Charles Mason '30; 5, C M. Comstock; 4, Rodgers Donaldson '30; 3, J. W. Dunlop '28; 2, Shubrick Clymer '29; bow, Rodney Tilt '29; cox, L. L. Wadsworth...