Word: headedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Scout Clifford Taylor, of Des Plaines, Ill., was cleaning fish. Suddenly he heard a cheer outside. Poking his head through the tent-flap, Scout Taylor was quick to recognize sparrow-legged U. S. Ambassador to England Charles Gates Dawes. No lavatory in his tent, Scout Taylor rushed out, fishy paws and all. Ambassador Dawes held out a clean white hand. "Afraid I can't shake hands," said the Scout, "I've been scaling fish." The Ambassador grinned, gripped the boys wrist...
...dramatic demonstrations of love gave Mr. Bohnen and Miss Lewis the reputation of being an ideal couple. Last week Miss Lewis charged that: In Manhattan Mr. Bohnen tried to make her leap from a window; in Paris he dragged her around by the hair; in Berlin he banged her head against a door until the hinges broke; in Los Angeles he slammed her against a wall. After a settlement had been made outside court, Miss Lewis said, "He is a fine man and I love him. It seems that we cannot live together...
Died. Ambrose Monell, 23, of Manhattan, son and heir of the late nickel tycoon (founder and longtime head of the National Nickel Co.) ; near Armonk, N. Y. when an airplane which he and a friend had chartered for a week-end trip crashed, killing both passengers and the pilot...
...understand that this has happened is what makes you remember the picture. She goes down to her cabin and stands in front of the wash basin. Because she is standing there she starts to wash her hands, then all of a sudden, to keep from crying, sticks her head in the basin and begins to wash her hair. When her sweetheart comes in and hands her the towel she is groping for she pretends to him that everything is all right. She convinces you then that she has complete knowledge of her part, and you accept without much argument...
Griffith Ogden Ellis, a Mason and clubman, is Senior Vice President of the Bank of Detroit. For seven years he was president of the Detroit Street Railway Commission. Another job, however, is really his most important one. He, head of the Sprague Publishing Co., has since 1908 been editor and publisher of the largest magazine for youths, the American Boy. Last week Mr. Ellis further increased his tasks by purchasing and merging with his American Boy its biggest rival, Youth's Companion...