Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Siwash out on the plains where men begin to be men, he might be pardoned for a certain old fashioned prejudice at Eastern innovations. But being a New Englander he must know that flapping trousers are a heritage of the sea; if they penetrate to the inlands of jersey it must be either that they are beautiful or that the sailor sons of sailing fathers cooped up far from shore satisfy in this way their insatiable New England longing for the ocean wave. In any case, President Coolidge is wrong; he must have a dark and subtle purpose...
Wealth by states gave New York the most, followed in order by Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Michigan, Iowa. Nevada came last with a total estimated wealth...
...Manhattan theatre is playing a drama entitled They Knew What They Wanted. One night last week, as the curtain was about to rise, a telegram was received saying that the President was coming to attend the play, but had been delayed in New Jersey. He was anxious to see the first act. Would it be too much trouble to wait a few minutes for him? For 30 minutes actors and audience waited. Then both became restive. Someone went out before the curtain and explained the situation, took a vote on whether the delay should be continued. The majority voted...
William H. Crocker of San Francisco (banker and Republican National Committeeman), Dr. Jacob Gould Schurman (ex-President of Cornell University, now Minister to China), James R. Sheffield (Ambassador to Mexico), Ogden H. Hammond (retired banker of New Jersey), Walter J. Damrosch* (famed orchestra conductor in Manhattan, son-in-law of the late James G. Elaine). Most of these were no more likely of choice than several score of others unnamed...
Princeton was once College of New Jersey...