Word: noon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There is in the New York City Hall a quiet, efficient President of the Board of Alderman, Joseph V. McKee, 38, who patronizes a conservative tailor and does much that Mayor Walker leaves undone. He is at his desk before 10 a.m., whereas Mayor Walker seldom appears before noon, if at all. Mr. McKee likes law reports and biographies. *Mayor O'Keefe confessed that he had never seen anyone get so hilarious on ginger ale as did Mayor Walker...
...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...
Count Felix von Luckner will recount his raiding expeditions in the Seeadler during the World War at a luncheon of 250 Union members at 1.10 o'clock this noon...
Indubitably, this work has been enormously aided through the publicity as well as by the personal efforts supplied by blind, mute Helen Keller. Impressed with the miracle which made doubly terrible Homer's cry, "O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, irrevocably dark, total eclipse without all hope of day," she could pity Milton, "upbraiding the world in high astounding terms," whose "light was spent ere half his days." She could doubt, in her heart, that it was a Nemesis who, that faraway, forgotten winter, had laid his hand upon her eyes. She could sense, perhaps, a certain...
...season may play in the contest, is he has restricted his playing for the 1927-1928 season to class C teams. All entries should be forwarded to W. M. Shedden, in care of the Union Boat Club, Chestnut Street, Boston. If the names are not sent in by noon February 25, they will not be considered for the tourney...