Word: namee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Avenir declared: "Borah hates France with a sort of sadic frenzy." One is a sadist who takes pleasure, ipso facto, in inflicting pain. * Last week John Allen Sickel, Manhattan caviar dealer, bet his wife that he could name all the state capitals in the U. S. He won. Curious newspapermen wondered how many other citizens could duplicate Mr. Sickel's feat. TIME readers desirous this week of making bets similar to Mr. Sickel's may settle their bets by consulting p. 9, where all state capitals are listed...
...Famed sack-consuming philosopher and companion of Prince Hal, he was later ousted from England, migrated to Germany. His descendants changed the family name to Folstadt, then to Volstadt. Most of the Volstadts were hearty beer drinkers, but not so the youngest son who felt the lure of the prairies of the New World. On arrival in the U. S. he changed his name to the simpler Volstead, little knowing that one of his progeny (Andrew by name) would some day put Volstead on the lips of teeming millions. (U. S. folk lore...
...beautiful flowers are in bloom throughout the year. For a peso one can make his house a perfect bower of the rarest and most magnificent blossoms, although they are without perfume. Another interesting feature of the plaza is a great number of public letter-writers, called by the odd name of 'evangelists,' sitting under the arcade along one side. These gentlemen do not write with the pen, however, as do their fellows in other illiterate countries, but with typewriters. Around their desks cluster little groups of picturesque peones in cinema costumes-huge hats and white shirts, usually with...
...Appleton, Wis., whose public schools she attended, lives beside Central Park nowadays, a national celebrity since 1912 or so, when her stories began appearing regularly in the magazines. Roast Beef Medium, Emma McChesney & Co., The Girls and So Big are the most familiar echoes to her name. She trains severely for authorship; swims, dives, secludes herself in a Basque fisher village...
...Name the 48 State capitals...