Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The trout season neared its close in Wisconsin. President Coolidge learned that trout feed by night as hungrily as in the daytime. He took up fishing after dinner and one evening stayed out until nearly midnight. Another day he caused his gear to be assembled and boarded a special train...
Candidate Beck, frankly Wet, sought to persuade the people to retain under him and U. S. Senator Robert Marion ("Young Bob") La Follette the same Progressive Republicanism (conservative Socialism) which they learned and loved under the late, great La Follette Sr. There was suspicion that, far from being Smith-beaters...
At Shinnecock Hills, L. I., Stewart Sheftal, 17, learned his golf. He has since been an expatriate, living in Paris. Last week he crossed the English Channel, went to Formby, England, defeated Archibald Dobbie, Scotch lad, for the British boys' open championship, 6 and 5. His was the eighth...
Minneapolis likes conventions. She gives them assembly halls, sleeping quarters, bands, singers, victuals, drinks, newspaper attention. And conventions like Minneapolis. One hundred and sixty two have met there so far this year; 29 more are scheduled. Last week the American Dental Association was there, with 8,000 members. They enjoyed...
A shot scared Mrs. Mildred Stevens Morf, 27, of Brooklyn, N. Y. In the next room, she learned, a housepainter had mortally shot his brother, Herman Goldenberg, dentist. Mrs. Morf fainted. Taken home, she did not revive; would not speak or eat. Last week she died, from acute hysteria.