Word: mr
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...modest and a conservative gentleman, Mr. Smith does not give out pictures, interviews, discussions of topics of the day. He graduated from Yale in 1895, went into the Harris, Forbes organization, worked gradually...
Birthday. Herbert George Wells, author (Mr. Britling Sees it Through, A Short History of the World, Men Like Gods); at Easton Glebe, Dunmow, Essex, England...
Died. Thomas LeBoutellier II, 51, of Manhattan, revolver champion of Europe, brother-in-law of Malcom Stevenson, international polo player; at Westbury, L. I. During the first chukker of a polo match at Meadowbrook Club, Mr. Leboutellier, stricken with heart failure, fell dying from his saddle...
...Historical Village at Dearborn, Mich., last week, Henry Ford and his son and grandsons witnessed the reopening of the school in which Henry Ford studied in 1870. Sitting once more beside Edsel Alexander Ruddiman, his oldtime desk-mate, who is now a learned chemist, Mr. Ford carved his initials on a desktop unreproved by Teacher. Although Mr. Ford is currently engaged in celebrating the Golden Jubilee of the electric light bulb, pupils at the old school will, for sentiment's sake, have to read by the light of oil lamps, be warmed by a wood stove, "just like Henry...
Wilbur Cherrier Whitehead is not the only famed bridge professional. There are also Mr. and Mrs. Ely Culbertson,* Milton C. Work, Sidney S. Lenz, E. V. Shepard. They are Whitehead's friends, not his rivals. They call him "Whitey." His position is authoritative. Other experts have at times disowned or retracted strategies they once commenced. Not Whitehead. He is conservative, a grandfather. He comes from Columbus, used to be president of Simplex Automobile Co. when it made cars you could not wear out. The word "Simplex" was cut deep on a triangle of brass on the blunt bonnet...