Word: knowes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...office has been merely "Commissioner" and its incumbent a sort of glorified Australian commercial attache assisting the British Embassy in Washington. "Yes, I taught Norman to play tennis," twinkled the Commissioner-General. "But he has been responsible for himself for some time. I am really a businessman, you know." Thus modestly Big Brother Brookes alluded to the fact that he is profitably interested in Australian pulp and paper milling, makes a business of sheep raising in Queensland...
...long, hard task. Every sale, down to the last of the year's 150,000,000 needle production, must be accounted for; every penny spent on advertising or axe-handles must be included. An army of accountants the world over must tussle for months with figures before stockholders may know what they have earned. Last week Singer's President, Sir Douglas Alexander, made public the annual report...
...made speeches at mass meetings, painted the Burial of a Workman which was stoned. For distraction he lay on his bed with a revolver and shot dotted-line pictures into the ceiling. At art school he ate the fruit and vegetable still-life models, saying "a real artist should know and enjoy the subjects of his paintings...
...Princeton men do not know John Gale Hun, who conducts in Princeton a school for young children, another school for "cramming" college entrance candi dates, and a third for "cramming" under graduates. So aware of Hun aid was one Princetonian, according to legend, that, upon graduating, he asked Crammer Hun to sign his name under those of the Uni versity Trustees and President. Legend adds Crammer Hun signed. This week another Hun enterprise was inaugurated: a country day school for students from Trenton, N. J., and vicinity. . . . Time-honored though the custom be, this year, for the first time, Princeton...
William Randolph Hearst and Louis B. Mayer, cineman, lunched Winston Spencer Churchill in Los Angeles. Announced Mr. Hearst: "I don't know exactly what to say. I came down from the ranch last night with Mr. Churchill, and we were six hours in the automobile, and I told him everything that I know anything about and a lot of things that I don't know anything about. I am sure he enjoyed the conversation, because he fell into the most peaceful and profound slumbers, and remained there...