Word: manly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Steamship Company. In telling me of the incidents related in your article about her father and Captain Paulet, she added the following: Captain Paulet declared sn embargo on vessels leaving Honolulu and sent his despatches to the English government by a schooner sailing for Acapulco, Mexico. An American business man secured passage on this schooner, and Prime Minister Judd en trusted to him protests against the action of Captain Paulet, to be presented to the American and English governments. Arriving at Acapulco, the English despatch agent and the American sought sleeping accommodations, but later on the American arose, and hiring...
...last week an affable little man with round rosy cheeks and thin grey hair entered for the first time an unpretentious office in a temporary building on Washing ton's Mall and there seated himself in one of the most thankless swivel chairs in the Government. The little man was Frank Xavier Alexander Eble, called "Alphabet" by his friend because of his four initials. The chair was that of the Commissioner of Customs to which he had just been appointed by President Hoover. The first day in office Commissioner Eble smiled his satisfaction at the progress being made...
...industry. The late great William Ewart Gladstone was his close friend, as were Tory Stanley Baldwin, Laborite Ramsay MacDonald and, of course, Liberal Leader Lloyd George. But more proud is he of friendships among other journalists, those from competing and antagonistic newspapers. They call him "The Grand Old Man of English Journalism." Editor Scott still talks of the time Woodrow Wilson traveled to Manchester to pay respects on his last visit to England. Not wealthy, he resides modestly in suburban Manchester, browses there among his books. Each day he bicycles to the office, waving to friends as they pass...
...magazines, has in recent years been a fast-growing profitmaker for its owners. Profits give publishers ideas. Last week McCall Co. decided to acquire control of Consolidated Magazines Corp., publishers of the fiction monthlies Red Book (circulation, 791,219) and Blue Book (165,903). Louis Eckstein, "the man behind Ravinia,*" president of Consolidated, required 25,603 shares of McCall stock, valued at more than two million dollars, to consummate the deal...
Sculptor Epstein declared: "If the man in the street does not like the look of it on his daily way to work he can always avert his eyes. In any case, the artist who considers the taste of the masses is a fool and is stultifying his own art. . . . In all beauty there is an element of strangeness, of unfamiliarity, which ordinary, non-creative people find alarming. . . . In my Night there is a touch of the inhuman. That is appropriate to the vast, vague idea of night. You could not personify such an idea by an ordinary pretty human figure...