Word: letters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Massachusetts Agricultural College, President of the Model Council, and John Clarke of Amherst, secretary-general of the organization will speak about the coming Assembly. Harvard men who desire to attend this luncheon in order to find out more about the Mount Holyoke meeting should make reservations by letter to Miss C. V. Hayward, 84 Prescott Street, Cambridge before Thursday evening...
Last week the Postmaster of Trencsen, a town in the Slovak section of Czechoslovakia, carried to the local Mayor in some alarm a tremendous letter from Siam, emblazoned with the royal arms and addressed to His Excellency the President of Slovakia, Professor Mihalusz. What could this mean? Startled, the Mayor ripped open the envelope, grew pop-eyed as he read. With all the pomp and felicity of Oriental diplomacy, His Majesty King Prajadhipok declared himself graciously and inexpressibly pleased to accord full recognition de facto and de jure to the Sovereign Republic of Slovakia. There is, of course, no such...
Recovering his startled wits, the Mayor of Trencsen drafted with much thought a letter to Bangkok. About a year ago, he explained, some Slovaks held a mass meeting and issued a "Declaration of Slovak Independence." The whole thing was quite harmless and academic, easily suppressed by the police. In fact the ringleader was just an old botanist of some slight renown, Professor Mihalusz. Scared pink as a geranium by the first police warning. Botanist Mihalusz fled Trencsen for parts unknown?some say Vienna. He must have written the letter which won Slovakia recognition?from Siam...
...three years the $100,000 was gone. In its place was an engine that sometimes worked. Mr. Buick advertised in Detroit papers. He wanted a partner with capital. Among replies to the advertisement came a letter from one J. H. Whiting, Flint, Mich., banker and carriage maker. Mr. Whiting was willing to invest in the Buick automobile, provided that Mr. Buick could demonstrate the soundness of his invention by driving it from Detroit to Flint. The first Buick started out from Detroit under its own power, but was dragged back by a team of horses. It had broken down...
...Beginning tomorrow we will cut an ear off each one every day until the money is sent to us. When the ears are gone we will cut off their toes one by one." It was an effective piece of writing, but how would normal parents react to such a letter? Author Connolly, recalling the existence of his nine-year-old brother, had an inspiration. When Author Connolly's mother returned home late one afternoon last week both her sons were missing, but a note identical with the last written lines of The Marble Coffin, was conspicuously present. Hastily summoned...