Word: maile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There came yesterday, by registered and special delivery mail, from Kauhava Puukkotehdas, in Finland-the finest Puukko knife I have ever seen. Hand made, six-inch tainless steel blade, black ebonite handle with my name embossed thereon in gold leaf, and with genuine leather sheath-it is a knife to behold...
...like all his leading New York contemporaries except Heywood Broun, no native New Yorker. In 1903 he inherited a colyum, "A Little About Everything" in the Chicago Journal. Next year he went to the New York Evening Mail to conduct a feature named, by Publisher Henry L. Stoddard, "Always in Good Humor." When in 1913 he transferred to the Tribune, he thought up his heading "The Conning Tower" to be non committal, "so that whatever I printed would not seem incongruous." The Tower was transplanted in 1922 to the World, where it shared the feature page with Heywood Broun...
...forced to order some months ago when his political foes (Republican) aroused public suspicion that New York City judgeships were being sold for cash by Tammany Hall. Two county juries came to no decision on Judge Ewald's case, though a Federal jury indicted him on a mail fraud charge. It was with suddenness, after hearing another suspected judge testify secretly, that a special county jury indicted Mr. Ewald, including also his wife as the person who allegedly passed $10,000 to Tammany's agent. The judgeship resigned was that of Francis Xavier McQuade, whose part-ownership...
...Recommitted a bill to allow railroads to transport mail by motor...
...first southbound flight from Newark Airport carried 26 pouches of mail and one passenger to Baltimore, who paid $12.15. Through fare to Atlanta...