Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...periwigged gallants, for instance, have crude methods of bathing. The great lexicographer Samuel Johnson, whom Peter meets, only "thunders out a few platitudes." And when Peter absentmindedly reaches for a cigaret he finds only a miniature cabinet. On the other hand, he creates a reputation for brilliance simply by using, as though they were his own, remarks from Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address" and "some cheap epigrams by a fellow named Oscar Wilde...
...Senator Hiram Johnson: "The principle of killing people to put them out of their misery does not appeal...
Helicopteroid. Under each wing of his Hamilton monoplane, Jess Johnson of Delray, Fla. fixed a 19-ft. air screw to turn horizontally as a helicopter vane. Last week at the Hamilton factory in Milwaukee, Mr. Johnson's co-worker Victor Allison, of West Palm Beach, set the vanes twirling. After pushing the plane for 25 yds, they raised her to 100 ft. off the ground. Then Mr. Allison turned on the regular propeller at the plane's nose. The machine rose to 1,000 ft., continued flying, an apparently successful demonstration of such a helicopteroid...
...entire cast follows. The Rt. Hon. R. Selby Mannock, M.P. R. R. Wallstein '32 Lady Jane Mannock Betty Jean Crocker '30 Arthur Mannock Brinckerhoff Jackson '32 Freda Mannock Elizabeth Johnson Digby W. A. Richardson '32 Edward Eversley J. F. Joyce '32 Bertie Capp A. R. Goodman '32 John Reader R. H. Jones '30 Lord Carchester H. G. Meyer '30 Sally Jessica Hill...
...Rosamund Johnson was next, arranger of The Book of American Negro Spirituals, composer on the African five-tone scale, whose voice is like a diapason. Taylor Gordon's is like molasses and a clear bell. They sang together. He trained Taylor...