Word: john
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Historians, thumbing over old Gazette files, wonder how Editors Dixon and Hunter would have treated President Hoover's election. For this was their whole account of a potent colonial event: "The Hon. John Hancock, Esq., a Delegate [to the Continental Congress] from Boston, is appointed President of the Congress in the room of the Hon. Peyton Randolph, Esq." Impartial, the Gazette gave George Washington no more space when he was appointed commander-in-chief of "all the provincial troops in North America...
...Thus beating the world's record of John Henry Mears and the late Captain Charles B. D. Collyer-23 days, 15 hours, made by air- plane and steamship in 1928. Last week Mr. Mears declared that he would next year try to fly the earth in 16 days with an amphibian. The pilot he wants: burly Bernt Balchen, now with Explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd in Antarctica...
...girls go wrong, and boys too, a Chicago Salvation Army officer surmised last week. He, Commissioner John McMillan, found by observation that three out of five women and every other man whom the Army has helped suffered from malnutrition when young. Their parents had not prevented them from guzzling, or had not given them enough to eat. or were ignorant of the essentials of a balanced diet. Opined the Commissioner: good food will make good morals...
Elizabeth B. Dewing is the philosophical, rusty-haired lady who returned, with My Son John in 1926, to something of the spurt of fame she made as Painter Thomas Wilmer Dewing's precocious daughter, who, at 23, wrote and published A Big Horse to Ride (1911). In the interim she married, bore two daughters, divorced. Lately she lost her second husband, a Dane, to Death. She tells her stories with warm, effortless naturalism but suffers, like so many sincere writers, from a too great dependence on platitudes in dialog...
PECCADILLOES-Faraday Keene-John...