Word: keys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tasker Lowndes Oddie, Senator from Nevada, is Chairman of the special Senate Committee on Gold and Silver inquiry. Inasmuch as Nevada is among the chief silver-producing states of the Union, he, like his Democratic colleague Senator Key Pittman, is highly in favor of aiding the silver industry. Bui Senator Oddie is a Republican and not so progressive or " radical" as Mr. Pittman. He will open a non-ferrous metal conference at Reno on Sept...
...Seven non-smokers and nine smokers (university students) were tested for three hours on 18 consecutive days, on some of which they smoked actual tobacco before the tests, and on others only the "control." The tests included pulse beat, motor control (absence of tremors), tapping of a telegraph key, muscular fatigue, cancellation of letters for alertness and accuracy, memory span for digits, speed and accuracy in performing addition, reaction time to short, familiar words displayed, and facility in learning to associate symbols and nonsense syllables. To summarize the results, the tobacco smoking tended "to retard and to disturb intellectual processes...
...Constance develops the. ideas and lines, then gives them to Mr. Stout, who, in turn, transfers them to paper." Miss Talmadge's first venture as an artist-a pen-and-ink artist-will be a series of cartoons entitled Dulcy, The Delightful Dumbbell. They are syndicated by the Key-City Feature Service and will appear in the Evansville (Ind.) Courier, the Rockwell (Okla.) Tribune, the Boston Post, the Scranton Telegram, the Sacramento Tribune, the Muskogee (Okla.) Phoenix, the Morning Sentinel (Orlando, Fla.), and in other enterprising papers throughout the United Spates and Canada...
...tendered his resignation, consented to remain in office, and assume the duties of Acting Secretary of the Treasury until his superior returned from abroad. This invited attention to a " boy wonder "; for Mr. Gilbert is only 30. Eleven years ago he began to dangle his Rutgers Phi Beta Kappa key. Three years later he took his law degree at Harvard cum laude. Even in 1918 he was only a minor official in the Treasury Department at Washington...
...thing to give credit where credit is due; it is quite another to imperil one's livelihood by excessive feelings of gratitude. Dempsey and Kearns, in their blind enthusiasm, have given to Tom Gibbons the key to his one vital shortcoming. He lacked that ounce of ferocity, that ecstasy of endurance that Nuxated Iron, according to the implication of Dempsey's statement, alone can give...