Word: mailman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ever get a crack at Kaufmann I'll prove they grow better golfers on Pittsburgh's links." His "crack" came in the semifinals. Champion Kaufmann won, 3 & 2. In the 36-hole final round Champion-Kaufmann kept his championship, beat solemn Milton Concrant, Toledo mailman...
...shorter than Charles Augustus Lindbergh's Ryan monoplane, the Spirit of St. Louis; which, like Lindbergh's plane, carried no radio apparatus, toted no pontoons, but had one 80-100 h. p. motor (Lindbergh's developed 200 h. p.). Unlike Lindbergh, MacDonald was no veteran air-mailman, parachute-jumper, stuntist. Last May MacDonald made one round trip from England to India, having had 10 hours' previous solo flying. Said the New York World: ". . . harebrained effort . . ."; said the United Press: ". . . a great sporting gesture...
...patient teaching had gone into that performance, more perhaps than was normally expended on the most colorless cast. But these murmurs were not news. Knowingly expectant people let themselves into the tiny Princess Theatre for the opening of a play written and performed by Frank Wilson, onetime Harlem* mailman, now title actor in Porgy. Otto Hermann Kahn was there, Max Reinhardt, Sculptor Jo Davidson, able Actress Thimig from the Reinhardt troupe and Mayor James John Walker. Between the acts Mayor Walker ambled nimbly to the stage and praised the piece prodigiously. Which may get him the Negro vote, but will...
...Prince of Wales, Henry Ford and Lena Stillman, and I look bored, but not blank, when the McNary-Haugen bill is mentioned. Last week I had just finished reading TIME from red cover to red cover, felt buoyantly well-informed. The doorbell rang, and there was the mailman with another edition of TIME. Oh dear! Yours, till my subscription runs...
Elementary arithmetic last week engaged the attention of U. S. citizens interested in the question of what commercial aviation company shall be Uncle Sam's mailman on the New York-Chicago leg of the transcontinental air mail route. "Why," asked figurers, "did Postmaster General New award the New York-Chicago contract to the National Air Transport Co.'s bid of $1.24 a pound when the North American Airways Co. bid $1.23 a pound, and when Capt. Earle F. Stewart of Manhattan bid 35� a pound?" Computers added also that U. S. Comptroller General McCarl had previously ruled that the Government...