Word: logs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...early experiences as a Manhattan newshawk in the days of the Herman Rosenthal murder and the sinking of the Titanic. Yet he can, on occasion, forget his reporter's training long enough to put extra barbs on some paragraph of gossip, or to roll a log for one of his favorites. His humor has much of the feminine savagery of Dorothy Parker...
Before the lecture a group of reporters went to interview Dr. Einstein at the home of his host, Nathaniel Spear, Pittsburgh furniture tycoon. They found him sitting at ease by a gas-log fire, not nearly so nonplused and frightened by the U. S. Press as he was four years ago. He understood the questions perfectly, groped now and then for an English word or phrase but seldom for a reply. Mr. Spear, confined to bed upstairs, sent down a request that the eminent man should pose for photographs beside a bust of Socrates in the parlor...
...Mexico's Clyde Tingley, Mayor of Albuquerque, will have his friend Douglas Fairbanks on hand on New Year's day to help inaugurate him Governor. Born in a log cabin near London. Ohio, he failed to graduate from high school, worked on a railroad section gang. Later he worked for the Wright Brothers who were experimenting with flying machines, finally went to New Mexico and turned his talents to politics. Last May Albuquerque voted on recalling him as Mayor, decided against it, 6 to 1. His winning campaign slogan: "I ain't going to quit saying...
...Allen, lineal descendant of the Green Mountain general of the Revolution, set out from Minneapolis to found a co-operative homestead settlement in northern Minnesota. Shrewd Leader Allen had persuaded the U. S. Government to buy 640 acres of land for $9,000. After one winter in a community log house, each family will receive, in addition to land, two cows, two pigs, a hive of bees, 100 chickens, farm machinery, a house costing $1,500?all free...
...English festivities, including the bringing in of the Yule log, the processional bearing of the boar's head, and the baron of beef, are being revived this Christmas and New Year's season at the Chateau Frontenac, on the site of the ancient Fort Saint Louis, in Quebec...