Word: ill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Electric lights first gleamed in the eyes of President Harrison (1890). When President McKinley gave public receptions the house was in such ill repair that the sagging floors had to be shored up with beams in the basement...
Died. Edward J. King, 61, of Galesburg, Ill., since 1915 a member of the U. S. House of Representatives; of heart disease; in Washington...
...Scotch communities. Shrewd, diplomatic, the U. S. operators secured the Earl of Birkenhead as the head of their new British interests. Since the Earl of Birkenhead was recently (1919-22) Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain and Secretary of State for India, his appointment was calculated to assuage British ill-feeling against U. S. economic invasion...
...modists who have drawn the old-style plans is Mr. Joseph R. Grundy of Pennsylvania. "Who is Mr. Grundy?" ask the ill-informed. "We have heard of his wife?or his sister-in-law?or of some Mrs. Grundy?but who, oh who is MISTER Grundy...
Sixty-one years ago a 17-year-old boy at Dexter Park, Chicago, pitched for a baseball team called the "Forest Citys" of Rockford, Ill. and defeated an eastern team, the "Nationals," by the then not so peculiar score of 29 to 23. The boy's name was Albert G. Spalding...