Word: manly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manager Aldworth's mind, the man more than the machine was the cause of the casualties. Newark police have charged Pilot Lou Foote with manslaughter...
...Nobody came to see the show, so finally he hired sleight-of-hand artists to do tricks in the lobby and attract a crowd. There followed many a theatre in Brooklyn, Manhattan, the Bronx, and eventual expansion into one of the world's most colossal enterprises ruled by one man...
Courage to tell the foremost financiers of the Great Powers that they resemble a gang of shady horse-traders is possessed by Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, the famed "Iron Man" who is President of Germany's Reichsbank. Today he represents the Fatherland on the Second Dawes Committee in Paris (TIME, Jan. 14 et seq.) which is trying to revise the Dawes Plan and decide how much Germany must eventually pay in reparations. Last week the "Iron Man" found himself deadlocked with the delegates of the Great Powers, who include John Pierpont Morgan. Result: Dr. Schacht, who fears not even Wall...
...finally Marquess of Reading is famed Rufus Daniel Isaacs. Last week he in- troduced David Lloyd George, fiery leader of the Liberal Party, to a campaign audience of 10,000 which jammed famed Albert Hall. A system of land wires (not radio) would carry the bandy little Welsh-man's speech to 14 other voter rallies throughout England, Scotland and Wales. In stage boxes on opposite sides of the proscenium sat, dramatically, the great lords of the British press, Viscount Roth- ermere and Baron Beaverbrook...
Last week in Calcutta, where Saint Gandhi had sat in jail 22 days charged with holding one of his "propaganda bonfires," he was finally brought to trial. As the "Biggest Little Man in India" stepped spryly into Court everyone rose, even the Crown Prosecutor, in deference to the Prisoner-Saint...