Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Magnus Johnson, Farmer-Labor Senator, defeated for reelection in Minnesota last November prepared to contest the election of his victorious opponent Thomas D. Schall, now a Representative from Minnesota. It was understood that the chief accusation was to be that Mr. Schall, who is blind, was supported by a slush fund of $80,000 raised by bootleggers...
...from which four members left to enter the Army. The late Gus Gardner of Massachusetts left in May or June, and died in camp the following January. I was the next to leave - in July, 1917. Then followed La Guardia, who left in September and, after that, Congressman Royal Johnson of South Dakota who left in November. Of the four, Gardner lost his life, and the other three were wounded in action. I arn afraid your article leaves the inference that La Guardia was elected to Congress solely because of having capitalized his War record, and the fact is that...
Doctor Samuel Johnson, that eminent pragmatist, never took off his shoes and danced on a wire. Had he done so, he well knew, he would have given any alert dog the opportunity of pontifying of him, as he once did of a dancing canine. "The wonder is not that he should do it badly, but that he should do it at all." Fearful of becoming the butt of such quadrupedantry, the wise Dr. Johnson abjured wires, seldom removed his shoes.* Not so cautious was Roger Fry, proclaimed by many educated people to be the best Art critic in the world...
...Johnson, however, was known to have removed ladies' shoes. At a dinner table he would absently stoop down and twitch off the slipper of his dinner-partner, says Thomas Babington Macaulay...
...Heading the list, for the fifth time in succession, was elongated "Will" Tilden II. William Johnston, of San Francisco, second since 1919, dropped to third place, giving way to the nimble-footed, sharp-eyed Vincent Richards of Manhattan. Others in order: Howard O. Kinsey of San Francisco, Wallace F. Johnson of Philadelphia, Watson M. Washburn of Manhattan, Harvey Snodgrass of Los Angeles, John Hennessey of Indianapolis...