Word: mates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Birthday. Paul Allman Siple of Erie, Pa., Sea Scout (branch of Boy Scouts of America), youngest member of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition; in Little America. Age: 21. National Scout Commissioner Daniel Carter ("Duffle Bag") Beard, felicitated him over the radio, announced his promotion to grade of mate of the Sea Scout Ship Niagara. Concluded Commissioner Beard: "Oh, say! Don't forget to bring back a coop of penguins and a school of killer whales. They will need them to guard you on the flagship Niagara...
...women" was a fashionable as well as a militant movement then and Mrs. Elizabeth ("Lil") White Rogers had only been doing what a number of other strong-minded ladies then thought necessary and honorable-picketing Woodrow Wilson in the White House. Dr. John Rogers, famed Manhattan surgeon, college mate (Yale '87) of Mr. Stimson (Yale '88), went and bailed out his wife. Lawyer Stimson and his wife, who was Mabel of the famed New Haven, Conn., sisters White, had to admire their sister's courage...
...stole dainties from the Red Room tea table and was ever to be seen at the President's side. One Thanksgiving Rebecca, raccoon, was sent to the White House to be eaten, but the First Lady could not bear to kill her, built a pen, found a mate (Reuben) who disliked Rebecca and eventually escaped. When President Coolidge summered at Black Hills he was presented with a white collie puppy. Diana of Wildwood, which he preferred to call Calamity Jane after Martha ("Calamity") Jane Canary Burke, famed Dakota saloonkeeper and roisterer, admirer of Wild Bill Hickok, by whose side...
...Paulo, Brazil, a street car crashed headlong into a circus elephant. The front of the car was smashed, the elephant lay unconscious. For two hours he held up traffic, while his mate stood by. trumpeted, allowed no one to approach...
...with such things. I was glad when even the N. Y. World, I think it was, threw Heywood Broun out of its writing staff and if more radicals were bundled together and shipped back to Russia . . . what a blessing it would be, but like Emma Goldman and her running mate, when they were deported, they . . . have been since trying to get back. Not on your life do I agree with John Dewey or any man however brilliant he may be in spots when it comes to upholding the radical and communist ideas. E. A. BRODIE...