Word: marked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Throughout the heat, stroke Cassedy of the first shell was able to keep his beat down to about 30, while the Jayvees, steadily falling behind, kept up a good 32 or 33 until the end. The first shell reached the mile mark in 4 minutes, 56 seconds, with the Jayvee boat trailing by a little over a length, and easily widened the gap of blue water to a length in the remaining 3-4 mile...
...Labor) at a tea given by the Minister of the Dominican Republic. The Post's society editor is the most authoritative. She is blonde Evelyn Peyton Gordon, daughter of the judge who sent Oilman Harry Sinclair to jail. Her assistant is Sydney Sullivan, daughter of arch-Republican Writer Mark Sullivan. On lively Eleanor ("Cissy") Patterson's Herald (Hearst-owned) is the highest-paid society editor in town, svelte Ruth Jones. By turning attention to the Capital's 'coon-hunting, cocktail-drinking younger set she has been helping get the Herald into Washington's front doors...
...Mark Shaw, Maine farmer, had a big family, as farmers should. Not all of them stuck as close to the soil as he would have liked. Ralph went off to be an aviator, and turned out to be a good one. George was shiftless, lazy, a loud talker, always in some kind of avoidable difficulty with his crops. Olly was frail; he kept his end up at harvest, but his mind was on debating triumphs at college, a lawyer's future. Mark's second wife would have been an invalid if they could have afforded it; pain made...
...watchwords. Lots to drink (though not for Hearst; he was and is a sipper of fine wines), lots to spend, cannon crackers, yacht rides-Hearst's staff were his familiars, and his paper's contents were historic. He had Ambrose Bierce, Gertrude Atherton, Joaquin Miller and Mark Twain on his payroll. Also Thomas Nast, Jimmy Swinnerton, T. A. ("Tad") Dorgan, Homer Davenport, Harrison Fisher, "Bud"' Fisher. In the Examiner first appeared "Casey at the Bat'' and "The Man with the Hoe." (A Negro doorman turned away Rudyard Kipling when he came peddling Plain Tales from...
...then he was 41 and taking himself really seriously as a social force. From then it seems he was taken seriously by society and his hangings-in-effigy after McKinley's death mark the crystallization in the U. S. mind of the idea that Hearst was sinister. The machinery which he built for Bryan he deliberately used later to carry himself toward the White House where he felt, doubtless sincerely, his "new journalism" could best serve The People. The measures he introduced in Congress (1903-07) were truly liberal in conception, but despite his lavish torchlit campaigns for Mayor...