Word: headedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Denney had something. Son of a master watchmaker, Charlie Denney moved from newsboy to Penn State to Union Switch & Signal Co., through a multitude of railroad jobs to general manager of the Nickel Plate. Then Bernet took him to Erie, left him there as president when he went to head Chesapeake & Ohio. A family man, he used to play avidly with electric trains in his attic when his son was small. But he knows railroading like a book, is hep to what it needs today...
...them have made careers for themselves. Most notable is John W., who made a bigger fortune than his father, is now Under Secretary of the U. S. Treasury. Dr. Frederick is a professor at Duke University Medical School; Alex is a leading Winston-Salem stock broker; James is head of Hanes Hosiery Mills Co., largest U. S. women's seamless silk hosiery knitting plant; Ralph is head of a dye and finishing business which he founded...
...pals in St. Joseph, Mich, called him "Punk." Now he is a fattish, fiftyish, rheumy-eyed, flashy-dressing showman. As a kid, he learned enough piano chords by ear to get some local esteem as a musician. Because he found he could play the piano standing on his head, he became Don Carney, the Trick Pianist of vaudeville. He got into radio 14 years ago. One day, on a half-hour's notice, he was assigned to do a children's program. Up at the microphone he just thought of mother, and from then on everything was Jake...
...lines, like the rest of Coffin's better verse, will make readers feel that they are being offered complimentary tickets to a prettier world than their daily one. Unfortunately these tickets give admission to no world, but only to the Maine-strewn inside of Coffin's curly head...
...head coach classed Joe Gardella and Ernie Sargeant as outstanding, while Big Tom Healey was commenced for dependable play at tackle. Barring injuries or the unexpected, they'll stick in the Crimson first lineup...