Word: manly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hoped he would get three others, to whom he had publicly offered appointments: Alexander Legge of Chicago (business), W. S. Moscrip of St. Elmo, Minn, (dairy), Charles C. Teague of Los Angeles (fruit). The President was having difficulty finding No. 1 men for his board. An able No. 2 man might make his mark on the board but the President knew the board required a No. 1 on it to make its mark. President of International Harvester, Mr. Legge is a No. 1 man to farmers and financiers alike. He was reluctant, but finally let himself be drafted...
...city and country of Honolulu. As Chairman of the Republican organization on the Islands, he was famed as one of the most liberal cigar-passers in Pacific politics. His face is longish and inclined to solemnity. Grave eyes look out from behind horn-rimmed glasses. A friendly man, he nevertheless practices a certain cautious reserve, a certain restraint of language. When informed of his appointment by President Hoover, he drew himself up seriously before his friends and announced: "I will endeavor to serve Hawaii in a manner befitting the responsibility which has been placed...
Aged 54 years, 6 ft. 3 in. tall, a man of strong and striking demeanor, Tycoon Dillingham has five homes on Oahu: 1) a copy of a Medici palace with open court; and pool on Diamond Head; 2) A copy of a Japanese home which was brought overseas piece by piece, including rocks and moss for decoration, at Waikiki; 3) A mountain home high up on the Punchbowl; 4) A cottage at Pearl Harbor, for sailing; 5) A million-dollar ranch for fine; horses and huge houseparties. So open-handed...
...overintelligent monk, stimulated by the dirty church politics of his time into a rebellion which became increasingly fanatic as it became increasingly personal. Their real job was to consider that Luther had no reputation one way or the other. If they had shown him, a stubborn, roundheaded little man, going about "his business in a country and a period where certain conditions existed, they could not have failed to suggest, by his reactions to those conditions, what sort of a fellow he was, and what sort of struggles went on in his mind. This might have been a great picture...
...work. In actuality, for many a long year, the master mind of Scotland Yard, the prototype of Sherlock Holmes, a sleuth in no need of amateur assistance, has been Chief Constable Frederick Wensley, a real super-detective credited with solving more murders than any living man...