Word: harnessing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ottawa-that now great and flourishing metropolis the site of which Queen Victoria chose as the Capital of Canada by a most quaint expedient (1858). Her Majesty closed her eyes, gestured with her right hand and brought her extended right forefinger down on a map of Canada. Then, opening har eyes, she remarked: "It is our will that here shall be the Capital of our Dominion of Canada...
...Sherwood Anderson - Boni & Liveright ($3). A Huckleberry Finn in lower Ohio. THE PLUTOCRAT - Booth Tarking ton - Doubleday, Page ($2). An Illinois Caesar visits Carthage. CHILDREN OF THE MORNING - W. L. George- Putnam ($2). What became of 59 children stranded on a desert island. EAST SIDE, WEST SIDE - Felix Riesenberg - Har court, Brace ($2.50). Epical treatment of Manhattan, isle of psychlones. I'LL HAVE A FINE FUNERAL - Pierre La Maziere - Brentano ($2). Upholster's apprentice into French Senator, into cynic. JILL - E. M. Delafield - Harper ($2). Life in looser London. CUSTODY CHILDREN - Everett Young - Holt ($2.50). Battledore and shuttlecock...
...Alex Grant, Penn 9 51 3-5 1903--W. E. Schutt, Cornell 9 40 1907--F. R. Rowe, Michigan 9 34 4-5 1909--P. F. Taylor, Cornell 9 27 3-5 1911--T. S. Berna, Cornell 9 25 1-5 1912--P. R. Withington, Har. 9 24 2-5 1914--J. S. Hoffmire, Cornell 9 23 4-5 1919--I. C. Dresser, Cornell 9 22 2-5 Other winners under 9.30 1914--D. F. Potter, Cornell 9 27 1-5 1920--H. H. Brown, Williams 9 27 3-5 1922--Walter Higgins, Columbia...
...Caillaux and part of the delegation were entertained by Hamilton Fish Armstrong, Editor of Foreign Affairs, at luncheon. The other guests included: Paul D. Cravath, John W. Davis, Herman Har-jes, Otto H. Kahn, Thomas W. Lament, Russell C. Leffingwell, James H. Perkins, Seward Prosser, Benjamin Strong, Paul M. Warburg, Walter Lippmann, Julian Mason, Frank A. Munsey, Rollo Ogden, Frank L. Polk...
...audience have been known to remain quiet for several hours after the performance. But soon, with unconscious imitation of Mr. Bartels' manner, they all said, "That's all right, Mama, leave it to me, I'm the little fixer" or "Sign on the dotted line", or "Ha! Har! Haar...