Word: mixes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...statistical bureau to the general manager's office to the accounting department to ''a responsible position" in the purchasing department, New Haven's Coolidge declared: "I love being called a railroad man. It's been highly interesting and very nice. . . . I've never really had any desire to mix in politics and there is little danger of my being asked. During the years father was in local politics we had enough to get by on but that...
Like Will Rogers, Charles Curtis, Mrs. Edith Gait Wilson, Eugene Luther Vidal. Tom Mix and many another noted U. S. citizen, Wiley Post was part Indian. Born 36 years ago on a Texas farm, he was raised in the Indian Territory oil fields, showed an early mechanical bent. One cay a red-hot steel splinter flew into his left eye, blinded it. Given $1,800 disability compensation, he promptly bought an old "Canuck," was soon barnstorming the Southwest. In Sweetwater, Tex. he met & married a pretty 17-year-old girl named Mae Laine who regarded him and his occupation with...
...minutes later publisher and Governor marched out. "Politics wasn't discussed," said "Gene" Talmadge, casually snapping his suspenders. "Just business. We never mix the two. He assured us the money was on a hook. If we don't get it, nobody else will...
...good deal wiser than the young man of 24 who first paddled and portaged to Flin Flon. He has done his part to uphold the Whitney tradition as the first sporting family of the land, but, like his first cousin John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, he has managed to mix with considerable grace business, horses and the conspicuous restlessness of the very rich. He helped found and finance Pan American Airways, is now its board-chairman. He has large holdings of irrigated land in the State of Sonora, Mexico, where he persuaded truculent Yaqui Indians to raise fresh vegetables for midwinter...
...says she flirted with him all the way across under the impression he was a fellow artist, "so you can imagine how I felt when I knew he would be my impresario." Nothing daunted, Mme Savage readily embraced life in the chorus, which she says is happy because "you mix with the greatest artists in the world." By those artists Mme Savage came to be loved and respected, to be called "Maman" and "Mother." Farrar gave her a wig, Nellie Melba jewels, Sibyl Sanderson a fan-all of which used to figure in Maman Savage's garb when...