Word: mike
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...What pleased me most was when Mike exclaimed: 'Gee, Miss Brown, you're not a bit like a teacher; you're so human.' . . . Are we wrong, I wonder, offering Art Appreciation and Workshop along with Arithmetic? . . . Yesterday I had a letter from Ned Thompson thanking me for persuading him to go to Yale. . . . Before I came to high school, I taught in the grades. Each morning Ikey Stein brought me roses which he had gathered in the cemetery. Patsy O'Reilly presented me with three battered toothbrushes; his father was a garbage collector. . . . I banged...
...last week flew east from Little America, discovered: 1) mountains running north and south between west longitude 150 and 145; 2) indications that the Scott Nunataks, Alexandra and Rockefeller Mountains were island-tops. Meanwhile Geologist Laurence McKinley Gould, looking for earth and rocks to dig, with George (''Mike") Thorne of Chicago (rescuer of Boy Scout Paul Siple last summer and regarded as perhaps the hardiest man in the Byrd Expedition) and John S. O'Brien, tried to climb Liv Glacier up which Byrd's plane flew to the South Pole. Thwarted, they attacked windy Heiberg Glacier...
...dies if he receives a stick of type in a local newspaper. But when Michael J. Pendergast, the peak of whose official career was to be City Clerk of Kansas City, Mo., died last week he re- ceived sticks of type across the continent and many politicians said, "Poor Mike...
...Mayor John F. ("Red Mike") Hylan for 29 years served the People. As magistrate he protected the underdog, as mayor he championed the 5¢ fare. For more than three years since his retirement as mayor, chafing under his inability to serve, he has started abortive booms for reelection. Failing in his latest he announced last week...
...were last week crystallized. Four secret meetings were held in Hollywood between an actors' committee (Equity President Frank Gillmore, Ethel Barrymore, Paul Turner, of the New York Equity office) and a producers' committee (Winfield Sheehan, Irving Thalberg, Jack Warner, B. P. Schulberg, Joseph Schenck, Mike Levee, Cecil B. DeMille, Louis Mayer). The result was a complete deadlock, but both sides, for perhaps the first time, made themselves clear...