Word: horatios
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...Died. Horatio M. Adams, 102, who, with his father and brother, helped to introduce chewing gum into the U.S., founded the firm of Adams & Sons Co. in 1869, which was later merged into American Chicle Co. (Chiclets, Dentyne); in Somerville...
...luncheon the following day, the toastmaster introduced Kubitschek as a man who had made good "in Horatio Alger style." The tag was entirely accurate. Brazil's President-elect, now a trim, well-groomed 54, was reared in poverty. He worked his way through medical school by working nights as a telegrapher, eventually became a fashionable surgeon, later gave up his profitable practice to enter politics. Elected governor of the Texas-sized state of Minas Gerais, he made his name as a builder, with a long list of roads, power plants and schools to his credit. Running for President...
Barefoot Girl. The story of Candidate Jacqueline Cochran is beyond the rosiest dreams of Horatio Alger. She does not know who her parents were, or where she was born an estimated 47 years ago. Her childhood was spent in a succession of Florida and Georgia cracker shanties, in dreary sawmill towns at the dead ends of Tobacco Road. Her dresses were flour sacks, and she got her first shoes when she was eight. Starvation was always lurking outside the door, and Jackie ate mostly what she could steal or scrounge. She learned to read from the signs on railroad boxcars...
...years, conservative, sporting George Horatio Charles Cholmondeley (rhymes with glumly), fifth Marquess of Cholmondeley and Joint Hereditary Lord Great Chamberlain of England, has sat silent in Britain's House of Lords. Last week, in the face of a growing national menace, he could maintain his peace no longer. "At long last," the 72-year-old Lord told his peers, "I have been brought to my feet by the wish to do something about the rabbit." Rabbits, his lordship insisted, must be exterminated. However, he said, "the only way a rabbit can meet a decent death is to come...
Then she read from some books. She read directions one how to swim, like "Don't inhale under water," quoted from the Bible, and read from "Horatio at the Bridge," explaining how Horatio swam the Tiber clothed all in armor. Meanwhile, Captain John Phair of the Yale swimming team swam the entire length of the 25-yard pool clothed all in armor--on loan, I guess, from some museum. He wore K-rations strapped around him to make up, they said, for the lack of Tiber current in the Payne Whitney pool...