Word: harvey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year-old great-aunt so lustily that he knocked her hat off, the crowd was treated to another spectacle: Onetime Senator David Reed and onetime Governor Gifford Pinchot, Republican arch-enemies in Pennsylvania, marched out on the speaker's platform, shook hands and were photographed together. Harvey Taylor, Pennsylvania's Republican Chairman, introduced the speaker as a man "sane, sound, sensible and sincere." Alf Landon stepped forward to explain his ideals to his home folks...
Married. Roger Stanley Firestone, son of Rubberman Harvey Samuel Firestone; and Mary Seagrave Davis, daughter of U. S. Circuit Court Judge J. Warren Davis; in Lawrenceville...
...renamed Gastown Vancouver. As the world's trade with Japan and China increased and the Panama Canal made possible water shipment of Canadian wheat, Vancouver's magnificent harbor became a key port. Today some of the West Coast's toughest, smartest tycoons are Vancouver's Harvey Reginald MacMillan (lumber, salmon), Austin Charles Taylor (oil, gold), the Spencer brothers (stores, gold...
...losing his place, and in an argument about whose place was lost first, the brothers got into a fight. Old Grandpa Young kept saying ineffectually that he was not going to have this contention in his house, never did have it and never would, at last wrote to Harvey for help. Just then Harvey appeared, out of work, with a blonde wife who sat around in her pajamas all day, fixing her nails and smoking cigarets...
...hard year in the lives of the Youngs and their women folk, involving the birth of another grandchild, a separation, an accident, a marked improvement in the spiritual development of almost all members of the crowded household as well as a general bettering of their economic situations. Even Harvey's city wife indirectly contributes to the common welfare, since she reminds gruff Tom of an old sweetheart, thus softens him a little without actually leading him into sin. Sometimes Author Thomas, despite her zest for writing about the homely details of farm life, comes perilously close to setting...