Word: might
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sirs: At suggestion of several friends here in the Plaza Hotel and some of my staff in the Imperial Oil Co., Canada-Toronto-I sent you ten days ago news note regarding marriage of my son Louis Severance Higgins to Miss Hawley of Toronto, Oct. 9. I thought you might cover in your issue 16 or 23 Sept. We are subscribers to TIME at the Plaza Hotel. Toronto family are as well. I appreciate you cannot do this for all, but I thought in this instance you would as his name connects up a prominent family-Severance-a family that...
...been a terrible thing. Evidently some of you have been in New Orleans during Mardi Gras, and if you have, you know that the whole town carries on on Canal Street as much as could have been carried on in any of the several Little Theatre parties that I might have visited, and most particularly one as the guest of the President of the New Orleans Association of Commerce. You pictured everything under the sun from these libelous and scandalous persecutors, but you did not take any note whatever that it was my administration which had aroused the old time...
...said: "So far as I know I never saw him. ... I never heard of it [Shearer's employment by Bethlehem]." Now Shearer said: "I have met Mr. Schwab on a number of occasions. 'The Star of Bethlehem' himself was the first to suggest that his company might employ me." He said he had conversed with Mr. Schwab in November 1926, at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Manhattan...
...Heard Rear-Admiral Hugh Rodman, U. S. N. retired, say: "There is little or no use in having an inferior navy. You might just as well expect a lame mule to win the Kentucky Derby...
...return from weekends exhausted physically and mentally. In a way we're sorry for Harvard and Yale men; we're sorry for any man who goes to J, and we've walked up Sunset ourselves. They could bring cars, of course, and eliminate all necessity of hiking. Or they might do something restful like sitting in the shadow of the dear old tank. If they are willing to exert themselves just a little we think the rowboat on Sunset Lake could be kept afloat if bailed...