Word: namee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Persons who skimmed through the Boston despatch containing these words and decided that any man who uttered them must be a living image of Author Sinclair Lewis' fictional creature, The Man Who Knew Coolidge (TIME, April 23), were both unfair and inattentive. The Lewis creature's name was Lowell Schmaltz. The real Boston man to whom the above remarks were credited was Edward F. Horrigan, a Massachusetts fire investigator...
...Pennsylvania held a primary and though no candidate had filed his name, the voters wrote Candidate Hoover's name on the ballots in such numbers as to justify the Hooverites' claim to all 79 Pennsylvania delegates...
...Manhattan last week, a festive party was held in an art gallery. An aged gentleman, hero of the occasion, was placed on a throne and at his feet a "magic carpet" was unrolled, upon which his friends came and laid presents. The old gentleman's name was then inscribed "leading all the rest" in a book of gold and he was saluted as the Abou Ben Adhem of New York City. The old gentleman was Robert Weeks de Forest, president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, of the Russell Sage Foundation, of the Welfare Council of New York City...
First player-"Name the Treasurer of the United States...
...laid down by Col. White and upon a large white sheet of paper executed his own autograph in huge script. The signature was sent to the photo-engraver to be reduced and reproduced upon new Federal currency. Mr. Tate would not let people see how he had signed his name until after his confirmation by the Senate...