Word: namee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Love Divine, To Thy dear name we set apart...
...Pinchot is not the only wealthy woman who knows the difference between a "scab" and a striker. Last week, readers of The Christian Century were surprised to find the name of a great lady as one who had written a letter to that religious journal. The letter...
...name of D. C. Stephenson, struck off with interlocking capitals, and underscored with a bold line, first appeared in 1921 in Indiana on the register of the Vendome Hotel in Evansville. After it the writer had added, as if to gratify his taste for romantic atmosphere, the words "Dallas...
...might be Woodrow Wilson. If Manhattan Schoolteacher Annie O'Rourke put the same question to little Isadore Israbinowsky, he might answer, according to the degree of his precocity, Calvin Coolidge or Alfred Emanuel Smith or Will Rogers. Certainly neither the Governor nor little Isadore would be likely to name Elihu Root. They had undoubtedly seen his name somewhere. Mr. Root must have done something or the mighty President Roosevelt would not have said of him: "He is the ablest man that has appeared in public life in any country in my time." And again, a month ago, onetime...
...autumn of 1865, five months after General Lee's surrender and Lincoln's assassination, that a not-very-prosperous school teacher from upstate New York packed his valise, boarded a train for Manhattan. The townsfolk of Clinton said Elihu Root would make a name for himself- was he not the son of a mathematics professor; was he not valedictorian of his graduating class at Hamilton College at the age of 19? Within a few years, he organized a law partnership of his own. Some people called Mr. Root a "crook lawyer." Mr. Root was not a crook...