Word: metting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Newspapering is a young man's game. . . . And a newspaperman is young only as long as he can successfully kid himself. I kidded myself because I kept on thinking smugly that I was Somebody. . . . [ Manhattan newspapermen] love to come into the office of a morning to remark. -met Noel Coward at Condé Nast's roof party last night and Noel tells me -.' Or, '- So John D. Jr., was standing in the stern of Vincent Astor's yacht (he's a swell guy when you get to know him) and I said...
...intangible change in feeling which saved the U. S. from complete surrender to what could properly be called a Values Panic, but there was nothing intangible about the factors which had worked for the change. Behind the group of bankers who met day after day at No. 23 Wall Street there glittered the world's greatest single pool of liquid wealth. How wide, how deep it might be, none but they could tell, for no man outside the doors of No. 23 Wall Street knows the resources of the House of Morgan. Loosely, journalists spoke of a grand total...
When the War broke out in 1914 Modigliani coughed too much to be drafted. He stayed all night in the cafes, sketching for drinks, arguing passionately and with great wit. In one of the cafes he met the Polish poet Zborowski who saw that he was dying. Zborowski tried to sell some of Modigliani's canvases. But no one wanted them, so he sold a trunk full of his own clothes and took the painter to Provence for his health. He improved slightly but once back in Paris he drank again, became so undermined that when an unusual cold...
...greatest backs in contemporary football met at New Haven. Yale's little Albie Booth kicked a field goal, gained 268 yards. Dartmouth's Marsters bridged the field in four passes for one score, threw his big lean body twice through the line and once round end for another, but gained only 94 yards and dropped the ball that gave Yale one of its two freak touchdowns. Hot and hurt (ankle) he left the field early. Booth stayed in, a constant threat, but it was a spry-sprinting substitute called "Hoot" Ellis who made the 80-yard dash that...
Surviving settlers of Dodge City, Kan., met there last week in a "Last Roundup." Hoar and weazened pioneers spun yarns of the bad days, recalled the town's early importance as shipping point for buffalo hide, as "payoff centre" after the Santa Fe railroad went through (1872). A parade was held with a covered wagon, stage coach, "buffalo bones" float (displaying a famed pioneer commodity), oldtime "soddie...