Word: harold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Asked what he would do with his $1,500 soldiers' bonus. New Jersey's Governor Harold Giles Hoffman cracked back at the Princeton undergraduates who have been baiting him for months: "I'm going to send my daughter to Princeton, so she can join the Veterans of Future Wars...
Sued. The City of Chicago; by John Ickes, 63, brother of Secretary of the Interior Harold Le Clair Ickes; for $31,125 in salary, $9,337 in interest, $11,000 in raises, accrued between 1926 and 1932 during which period he was removed from his job as chief clerk of the City's special assessment division for "political reasons...
President Harold Glenn Moulton of Brookings Institution L.L.D...
...last week the steamer Lorraine Cross met a tiny, two-masted tub lolloping along under sail with a distress signal flying. When the master of the Lorraine Cross asked what was wrong, the four men on the little tub's deck shouted back that she was the Margaret Harold bound from London to Trinidad via Gibraltar, that they were completely out of food and fuel. The Lorraine Cross's captain observed that the ship's name had been painted out. He asked to see her papers. At once the four men yanked down their distress signal, hoisted...
...early years of the 19th Century, when England was ruled by the fat and foolish Prince of Wales, when Beau Brummell set the fashions, when Byron was revelling in the popular success of Childe Harold, a sprightly young lady named Harriette Dubochet, who had run away from home to become a prostitute, was at the height of her career. Very small with brown hair and large eyes, the daughter of a well-to-do stocking-mender, her life as a courtesan was not sufficiently distinguished to win her a place in history. She exercised no political influence, such...