Word: laird
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Laird of Stanmore. Senator George Higgins Moses of New Hampshire, opposing the Treaty, suggested that Senator Reed was "wrongfully in possession of these papers," advised him to return them to the State Department. When Senator Moses refused to look at the documents in Senator Reed's office. Senator Reed declared : "I can arrange to have the Secretary of State, with an armed escort, if necessary, present the papers to the Senator with all the formality necessary...
Retorted Senator Moses: "Oh, no. I would not put the Laird of Stanmore- to that inconvenience...
Record. For years Capt. Frederick H. Becker, expert pilot, agent for Laird Airplane Co. (instructor of Capt. Joseph Medill Patterson and the latter's daughter Alicia), had not suffered a serious accident. Last week Capt. Becker flew a $25,000 Laird biplane from Roosevelt Field to Poughkeepsie, N. Y., there overshot the field, cracked up. He climbed into another Laird, reached Roosevelt Field 2 hr. after his first takeoff, struck a soft patch of ground, cracked up. Said Capt. Becker, emerging still unhurt from the second wreck: "Well, I guess that's a record...
...Laird of Colgate has made a sleep-habit survey of 509 distinguished U. S. men, learned some of their ways of putting themselves to sleep: sticking feet out from under covers, straining eyes, random thinking, repeating Christian names, plans for an ideal home, extracting square roots, eating onions, praying. Of those questioned, only 2% used alcohol to induce sleep; half of them were distinguished college professors...
...SLEEP-Donald A. Laird and Charles G. Muller-John...