Word: madison
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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JOHN HAY was chosen Secretary of State, and not John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, James Madison, James Monroe, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, William H. Seward, Hamilton Fish, Richard Olney, Elihu Root or Charles Evans Hughes...
...George Arthur Buttrick, now pastor of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, Manhattan,† was at Buffalo when he told a group of Presbyterian ministers how he evaded the enticements of his morning paper. He always read it standing up and so remained always aware that he must spend no time on drivel no matter how entertainingly written. That was shrewd self-management, remarked the Presbyterians, and his formula made the rounds of the ministers. Last week it appeared again-in William H. Leach's magazine on parish administration, Church Management. Editor Leach revived it in warning ministers against...
...Elemental social manifestations . of this kind appealed to Charlie Miller as well as to the frowsy "bummers" infesting the upper galleries. In those days a frowsy bought one ticket and stayed all week; it was an inexpensive method of keeping warm; sociable and slightly alcoholic. Nowadays the new Madison Square Garden is cleared out early each morning. Also, society has now discovered the six day race. "Get your gloves on, Shelmerdene, we're going to be boisterous at the bicycle races." That sort of thing depresses Charlie Miller...
...riders broke records and bones; the spectators screamed contentedly; one man was gloomy. He was Charlie Miller, winner of the last one-man six-day race, held in old Madison Square Garden in 1898. Charles Miller rode 2,007 miles in six days, taking nine hours, 15 minutes sleep. The winning two-man team last week rode 2,522 miles. When one grew tired he hopped off his wheel and went to bed, and his partner went riding on. When Charlie Miller tired he kept on pumping; he pumped until exhaustion so overcame him he fell off his cycle...
...catch a fly in flight between his thumb & forefinger. The day of his death, like most of the days of his life, found Griffo without a dime. Money was minted to his memory. In an imposing white metal casket, gift of Tex Rickard, Griffo was buried from the consequential Madison Avenue Baptist Church. The funeral throng was mixed from the brave days of old; tottering gray figures forgotten by the sport world, women who remembered, fighters he had knocked senseless. A newspaperman reported James J. Corbett, onetime heavyweight champion of the world, as having said, kneeling beside the casket...