Word: namee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week at an American Bankers' Association banquet, by President Glenn Frank of the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Frank's boldly rational suggestion was that Congressional lobbyists should be recognized, dignified, legalized and set up as a Third House of Congress-"House of Technologists" was the best name he could think of at the moment. Let business, finance, agriculture, labor, transportation, education, etc., etc., elect their own variously specialized representatives to such a Third House, said Dr. Frank, so that the lines of economic force in the U. S., which no longer parallel what remains of old political...
...that a ship you are used to never feels quite the same after she has been handled a while by someone else. In the case of the S. S. Leviathan, the saying would hold specially true for a man who last handled her during the War, when her German name, Vaterlard, had just been erased and before she was remodeled to be the luxurious flagship of the U. S. Lines...
...Hamlet," continued Dr. Setala, "may have been a Danish, Icelandic, Swedish or Finnish prince. It is impossible to decide. In Icelandic folklore we find the Hamlet myth related of Prince Amlodi, a word-name meaning 'off his head' or 'silly...
...white elephant, adorned with tar and talcum powder, strolled down Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, at 12 noon, trailing behind her a train of toy trolley cars, each painted, in large letters, with the name of that excellent hostelry, The Hotel Roosevelt, what would this be? It would be a publicity stunt. What would a hardboiled, wise, cynical, alert newspaper reporter think it was? He would think it was a front-page story. This, at least, was the opinion which intelligent persons were compelled to adopt after witnessing last week in Manhattan an example of journalistic susceptibility to unoriginal press-agenting...
...dashed, fully garbed, toward the floundering female, who struggled away from him through the broken ice. "Mister, Mister, let me alone," she cried, but eventually permitted herself to be taken to the Lexington Avenue Hospital. Here, Mlle. Roseray was treated by a Dr. Martin J. Blank, who, despite his name, was no party to the plot; the man was put to bed so as to recover from a severe chill...