Word: kindly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...what with staying in my office in Washington until 12 o'clock almost every night. This experience will be invaluable to me when I start lecturing again in the fall and also will be fine material for a book I'm going to write. Everybody is so kind to me, this is such a polite city, I really enjoy every minute. Why people even get up to give me a seat in streetcars and subways." On his third newsgathering day, he was sent to interview one Lillie Anderson, just arrested on her 24th intoxication charge. After giving...
Shenandoah Corp. was broadly empowered to "buy, sell, trade in and hold stocks and securities of any kind . . . participate in syndicates and underwritings . . . exercise such other of its charter powers as its Board of Directors may from time to time determine." The Board thus broadly trusted contained great names, One was Goldman Sachs & Co., potent financiers. Another was Harrison Williams, potent utility man. After the House of Morgan has taken its bow as First in Finance, it is questionable whether any other banking house, from the standpoint of present and recent activity, much outranks Goldman Sachs. As for Mr. Williams...
...Player Hornsby, an extraordinary hitter, is well aware of his excellence. The story is told that once, at a practice game in spring training, a young catcher asked each batter what kind of ball he was weak on, so that the pitcher could throw such a ball and give the batter needed practice. When Player Hornsby was asked this question, he gave the young catcher an offended look, haughtily replied, "This is Rogers Hornsby batting...
Halterophora Capitata, informally known as the Mediterranean fruit fly, arrived in Florida mysteriously, probably late last year. Some say it may have traveled in the straw around the liquor-bottles on a rumboat. It is a fly which settles in any kind of fruit except watermelons and pineapples, or in vegetables if fruit is not handy. One fruit fly will lay 800 eggs. An orange, lemon or grapefruit in which 800 little fruit flies are hatching soon becomes a horrible, maggoty thing. Since last May, when a U. S. Department of Agriculture representative bit into a flyblown orange and gave...
Brief is the glory of tallest buildings, longest boats, mightiest cannon, similar man-made objects which for a little while are the superlatives of their kind. With the liner Bremen, world's third longest, just starting on her maiden voyage (see page 21) came last week the announcement that United States Lines, Inc., was planning two new liners longer even than the 938 foot Bremen. They will each be approximately 950 feet long, said Joseph Sheedy, who is operating U. S. Lines, Inc., for Paul Chapman. Each will accommodate 4,000 passengers...