Word: naming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Esther is the grand champion shorthorn cow in Argentina's forty-first national live stock exhibition and is more truly a national figure than any Miss America has ever been, with her name on every tongue . in Argentine, including the furthest frontiers and hamlets...
...crowds at billiard tournaments are never very big, but Rudolph and Greenleaf had another audience which followed their contest in newspapers and discussed it in doorways-the enormous and tremendously expert audience of U. S. pool players. Pocket billiards is another name for continuous pool. You play it on a sixpocket table with 15 numbered balls and a cue ball. You must name the ball you want to pocket and the pocket you are shooting for. If you make your shot and knock in some extra balls you may count them too. All other pool games-cowboy, rotation, kelly...
...Aviation Corporation, $40,000,000 holding company, announced last week the formation of a subsidiary corporation (name unannounced) to consolidate under one sub-president its transport activities, which constitute 30% of all scheduled air transportation in the land. To head the sub-merger Aviation Corp. chose an expert traffic man, James Franklin Hamilton, president of New York State Railways, Schenectady Railway and United Traction...
...great-grandson, the illegitimate son of the illegitimate son of his illegitimate son. Author Faÿ, ironic but appreciative, thus describes the meeting of Franklin and Voltaire: when Ben presented his grandson to the philosopher and asked for a blessing, Voltaire "blessed him in the name of God and Liberty. None in the audience could restrain their tears. Love was such a pressing need in the 18th Century! They had forgotten that Monsieur de Voltaire had scarcely any faith in Liberty and none...
...accepted, and saw it. "For services rendered in Mexico," he was officially complimented by the Maryland Legislature, presented with 160 acres in Iowa. The Civil War found him in command of Washington Navy Yard. He resigned, later asked to have his resignation reconsidered; was told curtly that his name had been "stricken from the rolls of the Navy." Sailor Buchanan said good-bye to his family, went to Richmond, became captain in the Confederate Navy. In March, 1862, in the reconditioned, ironclad Merrimac (rechristened the Virginia) he sallied out against the Union fleet blockading Norfolk. As they went into action...