Word: headed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After reading your Miscellany column in the last issue of TIME (Aug. 20) I think it would be more fitting and proper to head the column with the word Morbidities, or words to that effect...
There was a crashing report and the crane crumpled into the water, its wing broken. President Coolidge handed back the weapon smiling. Another Secret Service man bashed the wounded bird over the head, carried it home. The President waived the bounty...
...Massachusetts Senate (1914-15), William Fairfield Whiting has believed him a man of destiny. He believed even more faithfully than Mr. Coolidge's political pastor, the late great Winthrop Murray Crane. In 1920 a delegate to the Chicago convention, Mr. Whiting voted to the bitter end to head the ticket with Mr. Coolidge. Then, after Mr. Crane and Senator Lodge and the rest of the Massachusetts men had capitulated to the Ohio idea, Mr. Whiting pushed their man again for vice president. Mr. Crane was dour. "He's done," he said. But Mr. Whiting had distributed copies...
...head is broad, shaped like a saddle, and weighs 400 Ibs. That itself indicates colossal body. But Dr. Andrews' first comparison-and there is little evidence that the cable garbled his words-was unbelievable. As quoted, he said that the beast was "about the size of the Woolworth Building if the building were in a horizontal position." The Woolworth Building is 792 ft. high...
Later last week Dr. Andrews showed that he had been at first jesting with newspapermen. Serious now, he compared the old beast to a story and a half house, 25 ft. tall by 25 ft. deep. With its heavy head it belonged to the rhinoceros family, ate the leaves of low trees...