Word: knowes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John drives the dark Lincoln limousine." To learn what make of car Mr. Coolidge used while President and to learn that he bought this car from Uncle Sam, is NEWS. Newspapers delete the name of the car because that would be advertising the car. It is good to know that TIME has the guts to print the NEWS, even if it is a blurb for the manufacturer. No thanks, I don't own a Lincoln−but I wish...
...girl, not over-strong. Out of banking hours her father had a passion for the out-of-doors, which his daughter inherited. Together they went on long camping trips up into the mountains (Mrs. Henry preferred to remain behind, ride in a surrey). Mr. Henry taught his girl to know trees, flowers, rocks, birds, animals. He gave her lessons in building fires, tent-pitching, sleeping under the stars. "Those days," says Mrs. Hoover, "went by like a dream." Her father died last summer. To Monterey one day came Prof. Branner, geologist of the new Leland Stanford Jr. University. He gave...
...stand at the window and I see automobiles and the wheels turning and smoke coming out of chimneys and people walking around, and I can't believe it. Think of seeing my son. Do you know, the nurses had to tell me what things were. I would ask: 'What is the long, pointed thing out there?' and the nurse would say, 'That's a church steeple.' I've been going to church all my life and didn't know a church steeple...
...seconds. Starting at $50,000, the bid rose in $5,000 leaps to $147,000. Then there was silence. The auctioneer looked inquiringly about. Quietly he added $5,000, ordered the vase to be removed. "Who's the buyer?" cried a woman. "The British public has a right to know that. The vase has been in our museum a century!" The buyer was the Duke of Portland. He had set his minimum at $250,000. He allowed newspapers to state that it would be returned to the British Museum. Britishers were happy, yet marvelled at the absence...
...young. I wish that I would suddenly grow up and get baldheaded. People come into my office and when they see me they laugh. President Angell said in a speech that Yale had robbed the cradle to get a secretary, and I replied that I wanted every one to know that I had a birthday last week and am now 24 years...