Word: namee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that same Oscar W. Underwood, Senator from Alabama, whose name rolled off the tongue of Governor William W. Brandon in 1924, was also heard from last week. He has changed his hopes and wants to hear a new cry from Alabama in 1928: "Twenty-foah votes for Alfred Emanuel Smith." Said he: "Governor Smith could win over any candidate the Re publicans name. It may be hard to nominate him, but he is our most available man. He is highly qualified for the Presidency and the fact that he is not in sympathy with the 18th Amendment...
...Zinoviev molted the last feather of his prestige when he was forced to resign as President of the Third International, the Communist world bureau for subversion, espionage and odd job propaganda. Citizens of Leningrad, once M. Zinoviev's political bailiwick, signalized his utter downfall by changing the name of Zinoviev University to the University of Leningrad...
...Meanwhile, H. R. H. had become intrigued by a little jazz gadget which one of the correspondents had produced and was using with considerable musical effect. I think its name is 'gassoon.' It is a small aluminum instrument, about five inches long, into the mouth of which one hums the tune, with a result rather like the sound of humming through a paper-covered hair-comb. The correspondent removed the instrument from his mouth, wiped it on his sleeve and gave it to the Prince to inspect. H. R. H. promptly placed it in his own mouth...
...still a pronunciamento to come, a review of all the premises and conclusions which would undoubtedly clear the air, explain all. This would be the self-volunteered statement promised by Protestant Episcopal Bishop Manning. The Bishop, Society remembered, had once known sharp-tongued Mrs. Belmont; had excluded her name, as divorcee, from the year book of a charity home that she herself had founded in his diocese. The Bishop, in short, was keenly interested in Society; he knew Society; he would be able to clarify the special sig nificance of this ducal affair. Before a congregation...
...They bought it at an auction sale in Butte, Mont., last week for $140,000,000 and their promise to untangle the road's debts, no light task. For the pres-ent there will be no change among the operating executives. But the system's name has been altered to the Chicago, Milwaukee & Pacific Railroad, with "The Milwaukee" as the nickname to be popularized. In St. Paul, famed neighbor of famed Minneapolis, Minn., this renaming is viewed with vexation...