Word: hand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Presently Mr. Hoover shook the hand of British Ambassador Sir Esme Howard and of Sir Robert Gilbert Vansittart, poet and Principal Private Secretary to James Ramsay MacDonald (and to Prime Minister Baldwin before him). Poet-Secretary Vansittart had just come to pay respects, anticipating his chief's proposed visit next month...
...followed by a maid of honor. She struck the steady prow of the monster gingerly with a flask of bottled water. She struck again. No damage was done. Up stepped manly Homer Lenoir Ferguson, President of Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. (see col. 1), took the bottle in his hand, shattered it to fragments. The monster slid away before his blow, slipped into the shining waters of the River James. "Ah christen thee Houston," murmured Miss Holcombe...
...Michael had begun drawing city pay. In 34 years, by the estimates, he drew $60,000 for his municipal services. But that was not what made him famous. His brother's political power descended in large part to another brother Thomas J., and Michael became right hand...
...looked as though the breakdown was at hand," he said. "The French had ordered a special train to take them back to Paris, Briand made an impassioned plea to me to put the interests of Europe before a paltry financial consideration. I agreed. 'But you ask us/ I said, 'to accept half our just claim. We cannot do that.' The conference seemed...
William Wrigley Jr. of Catalina Island, baseball (Chicago ''Cubs''), gum and the Wrigley Building, is stout, bluff, good-natured, always ready to clasp the hand, to pass the Spearmint. He is fond of telling how, many years ago, he paused before a South Clark street restaurant, with holes in his shoes and snow on the ground, and spent his last dime for the "Biggest Bowl of Bean Soup in Chicago." Mr. Wrigley will be 68 on the last day of the present month...