Word: markhams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, after a one-man campaign waged by M.P. Sydney Francis Markham (author of a treatise on weather called Climate and the Energy of Nations), temperatures in the House were reduced to 66°. To avoid chilly drafts, engineers will henceforth release extra-warm air into the empty lobbies whenever the chamber's doors are flung open at voting time. Beamed Climatologist Markham: "We are . . . approximating our aim-warm feet and cool heads...
Helen Deane Markham, assistant professor of Anatomy at the Medical School, was among four people who refused to answer questions before the Jenner Committee on Friday, March 27. She invoked the protection of the Fifth Amendment in several instances...
...statement to the press, Mrs. Markham said, "The procedure of the committee shows clearly that it is not searching for the truth but is seeking to terrorize the witness and in turn to terrorize the public...
Reverse English. In London, Conservative M.P. Major Sydney Markham complained in the House of Commons that tradesmen, cashing in on the coming coronation, were using objectionable ads, e.g.: "Ladies' underwear, ornamented with the Union Jack at the rear...
...gathered around him a brilliant, erratic crew of staffers and contributors (Ambrose Bierce, Mark Twain, Edwin Markham, Homer Davenport, et al.), entertained them by dancing jigs in the office, striding through the streets with a cane that whistled, and in more corruptive ways. He was great fun to work for; after a hard day in the newsroom he liked to gather the staff at his big house for lavish parties complete [said horrified gossips] with "abandoned dancing girls." After his father died (1891), someone complained to his mother that Willie was wasting the family fortune away at $1 million...