Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...excellently. ... It is what the title proclaims, an Act designed to procure adequate peacetime military establishment. . . ." Miss Jennie R. Dix, president of the Spanish War Nurses made a little speech; so did Mrs. Margaret Manion, president of the Ladies' Auxiliary of the United Spanish War Veterans. So did Mayor John W. Smith of Detroit, who fought Spain as a 15-year-old private in the 32nd Infantry...
Last week Mayor of New York James J. Walker, punctuating his arrivals and departures with pithy comments, continued his European excursion...
Venice was veiled with flags in his honor; people cheered when they spied him on foot or in a boat. Mayor Walker quickly called the gondoliers "wet taxi drivers," the canals, "nature's pavement." On being shown the Doges' Palace, he lighted a cigaret, murmured to Count Pietro Orsi, Podesta of Venice, "Very historical." When he saw the sunset-colored pajamas worn by other guests in his hotel, he reflected, in jocular fashion: "If I dress like everyone else here nobody will know whether I am just getting up or just going to bed. Perhaps I will...
...confused with Author Donald Ogden Stewart (Parody Outline of History, Mr. and Mrs. Haddock Abroad, etc.) *Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of the World. ?Mayor Walker was in Europe...
...Jean Valjean, a strapping fellow, brutalized by 19 years in the chains of convict labor for the theft of a loaf of bread. The kindness of an old bishop causes the spark to glow in Valjean, so that after his release, he devotes himself to saintly deeds. He becomes mayor of a small French town, befriends a stricken harlot, adopts her child, Cosette. Later he retires to Paris to live quietly with his ward. Because of a trivial offense heedlessly committed after his release, this virtuous man is mercilessly hounded by Police Inspector Javert. At the summit of every achievement...