Word: knowes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...possible that Senator Smoot doesn't know that the West Riding of Yorkshire is one of the administrative divisions of the largest county in England, and contains large manufacturing cities like Leeds, Bradford, Sheffield, Huddersfield, Halifax, or is he joking, or trying to make Senator Harrison believe it is a protest from a riding club...
...Minister Tom Shaw. "A few more years!" came the bullfrog bellow, "A few more years of Tory [Conservative] misrule and Great Britain would lose India just as surely as she lost the American states! Labor is changing all that. Take Egypt, for example! I say and I know that The Labor government is going to give independence to Egypt on terms that will establish happy relations between both countries and will make our communications with India, safe for all time!" Later at the War Office an apoplectic general said, controlling himself nobly, "My attitude toward Mr. Tom Shaw...
Rumanians do not yet know the half of Her Majesty Queen Marie's exuberant doings (TIME, Oct. 25, 1926, et seq.) and endorsings in the U. S. Rumanian censorship obliterates lèse-majesteé. Last week a mite of the spicy truth leaked out at Bucharest. Wrote intrepid Publicist Grigore Filipescu...
...Rosamond Pinchot Gaston was featured in a Hupmobile advertisement. A description of her said: "She adores horses, motor cars, and motor boats. . . . Peel of London makes her riding boots, and Nardi her habits. . . . Her favorite luncheon place is the Voisin where she always has a certain corner table. . . . They know her in Vienna, Prague, Salzburg, New York, and points west as the nun in The Miracle, and all over Europe as a member of Max Reinhardt's Repertoire company. . . . She shuttles between New York and an island off the coast of Maine by train, car, and speed boat. . . . Her personal...
...James Rowe. Not to most jockies, trainers, nor even to many a famed sport king himself had come the fame that came to Harry Payne Whitney's 72-year-old trainer. A jockey at 16, he early won fame and money. When he knew all there was to know about horses, he became a trainer, trained for such men as the late great August Belmont, James R. Keene. finally for Mr. Whitney. "This is my last ride," said Trainer Rowe last week as he was being driven to the hospital, stricken with a heartattack. His "last ride" over. Saratoga...