Word: headed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dark four-inch discs with yellow circles on their backs. The secret-service men showed him how to stand at the butt, get set, cry "pull!" and blow the sailing "pigeons" to dusty smithereens. There was also baseball-the opening game of the annual tournament of the Head-of-the-Lakes semiprofessional baseball association. The field was beside the railroad yards in Superior. Long freight and ore trains trundled by constantly. President Coolidge threw in the first ball and the first battery knocked it out-of-the-lot.* Mrs. Coolidge munched chocolates and watched vivaciously. John Coolidge, though there were...
...Getz trucking interests in Manhattan, Alfred E. Smith. Thompson has lately been complaining, like Hughes, of ill health. Last week, like Hughes a few days prior, Thompson denied that he himself was going to resign. Chicagoans last week talked of putting Vice President Charles Gates Dawes at the head of a consolidated anti-crime commission to rehabilitate Chicago's self-respect...
Alvaro Obregon, born in the remote hamlet of Huatabampo, Sonora, 850 miles northwest of Mexico City, was solemnly returned thither, last week, to seek honest, humble rest. Over his grave will rise no ornate tombstone but at the head will rest a Crown of Clay, baked hard as porcelain. By this traditional symbol, the Republic of Mexico, which cannot crown a living hero, is accustomed to pay royal homage to the Heroic Dead...
...governors of The Apparel Mart Association are: Alfred Decker, of Alfred Decker & Cohn, wholesale clothiers; F. G. Peabody of Cluett-Peabody & Co. (collars); I. L. Marienthal, of the Modern Belt Co.; 0. Koerner, of Hansen Gloves; B. J. Shnur, of P. Becker & Co., trunk and bag makers. The head of Apparel-Manufacturers' Mart Building Corporation is Napoleon Picard, who organized the Insurance Exchange, in Chicago. Architect Ahlschlager is vice president; A. R. Clas is secretary and treasurer...
Said F. H. Shera, Professor-elect at Sheffield University: "Upon whose head and upon what country can the blame be laid for the invention of the saxophone? ... I am afraid that the great American Nation was responsible...