Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...foot in Caracas, he lives, breathes and transacts all business right here in Maracay- the Versailles of Venezuela. And what's more. at least 60 of his 84 acknowledged children live in and round the town. He is the original bachelor father, as you may or may not know. AND the Reigning Favorita lives here, just a block from the Royal Residence. All the American population of Maracay (we are seven) swear by TIME, but we cannot bear to have our fair city slighted. It's a grand town, we have a sewer and everything...
When Curtis Dwight was graduated from the U. S. Naval Academy, Ray Lyman was still playing Indian in short pants. But Ray Lyman was not so young that he did not know Curtis Dwight had won the Academy championship, and a handsome tambourine, for high-kicking. Being a quiet boy, Ray Lyman did his high-kicking, if any, secretly...
...loss for a man to put in as Secretary of the Navy, a state-loyal California newshawk sent in the name of Curtis Dwight Wilbur?"Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California." On paper it looked magnificent, and Calvin Coolidge had not then been President long enough to know how magnificent paper can make some things and people look...
...different types of boats, a thorough knowledge of which is essential to successful coxing under the present rowing regime. The School will have but seven or eight meetings and regular attendance will provide coxes with the facts that all the coaches will reasonably expect the upperclass steersmen to know once the crews are on the water...
Round 11. In Chicago, Col. Stewart asked the question: What does Mr. Rockefeller Jr. know about Standard of Indiana? -and answered it himself. "They [Rockefeller and his associate, Thomas M. Debevoise] have never visited a refinery or sales station or producing property of the company. Nor outside of one or two officers or directors do they know a person in the entire organization. The present prosperity of this company has not just happened; it is the result of earnest, loyal work and toil from the board of directors to office boys." Increasingly, during the last two years, have Standard...