Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...desk clear, he hurried off to Illinois to make a waterway inspection with Governor Louis Lincoln Emmerson. With him he carried a speech on waterways for delivery later in the week at Minneapolis, whither he and many another bigwig were supposed to go to help a shrewd man named Wilbur Burton Foshay dedicate a new office building designed like the Washington Monument...
When the keel of a mighty ship is laid with the help of the British King-Emperor's only daughter, Princess Mary, loyal Britons are in a mood to demand that that ship must be completed, come what...
...torso, "Volupte," is lodged in the Metropolitan Museum. Another was Samilla Love Jameson (married name: Heinzmann) who lately completed a bust of Tammany's 100-year-old Grand Sachem John Richard Voorhis (TIME, Aug. 5). She offered to sell the bust to the highest bidder for money to help the cause. Others were Tamara Loeb, Guggenheim prize winner in sculpture and W. B. Graham, dance critic. All attested to Dreyfuss's sanity and volunteered to post a bond to insure against his becoming a public charge should he be released...
Delinquent Postmasters. Postmaster-General Walter Folger Brown last week reminded 1,500 postmasters of communities with populations between 1,000 and 50,000 to help the Guggenheim Fund get their cities air-marked. The Postmaster-General threatened to shame delinquents publicly by printing their names. Two thousand postmasters had got town roofs well marked. Three thousand others are exhorting their citizens to do likewise...
...mossy, shattered abbeys and cloisters of England. In days to come, as they sit in the quiet recesses of London's Athenaeum Club, they may chat about their cathedrals, exchanging theories and compliments. But as their respective shrines rise on the banks of the River Mersey, they cannot help but command the eyes of England as esthetic competitors...