Word: lied
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brown Meloney, editor of the Sunday magazine section of the New'York Herald Tribune. Daniel Guggenheim and Nicholas Frederic Brady sent flowers. 2) Inspecting John Pierpont Morgan's famed library. 3) Dining with her great & good friends, the Owen D. Youngs. Next day she sailed for home on the lie de France with Rubberman Harvey Samuel Firestone, Archbishop Nicholas of Serbia, Publisher George Palmer Putnam and Cinemactresses Pola Negri, Alice Terry and Claire Luce among her shipmates...
...climbed Dodge City's famed Boot Hill, burial place of many men and one woman* who died "with their boots on" (by violence). Although 32 of the bodies were removed to the town's cemetery in 1878, it is popularly supposed that several collections of bones still lie under Boot Hill sod. On this traditional spot the "Last Roundup" laid the cornerstone of a new city hall. Then a statue was unveiled of a cowboy, appropriately drawing his six-shooter, said the inscription: "On the ashes of my campfire this city is built." The figure was carved...
...told the tale of a Harvard Freshman, who was asked in an examination: "Who founded St. Petersburg?" The Freshman answered, and President Angell thought perhaps rightly: "St. Peter." To the question, "What lands lie beyond the Jordan?" the Freshman replied, delphically: "It all depends upon which side of the Jordan...
...Great Lakes-St. Lawrence seaway "whenever our Canadian friends have overcome those difficulties that lie in the path." Time: ten years. Cost: "After we have disposed of the electrical power, we could contract the entire construction for less than $200,000,000 divided between the two Governments...
Marie José Charlotte Sophie Amélie Henriette Gabrielle, 23, of Belgium; at Brussels...