Word: northfield
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Bill Hassett is a Washington institution. Born in Northfield, Vt., he started his Washington newspaper career in 1909, worked decades as a newspaperman before shifting to a job with NRA and on to the White House. A kindly, gregarious, infallibly obliging gentleman of the old school, Bill Hassett rather likes being called a Victorian. He is deeply versed in English and American history and literature, lives in comfortably Victorian bachelor diggings on Pennsylvania Avenue, only five blocks from the White House...
...Republican nomination for Lieutenant Governor went to rugged, hardworking Ed Thye, Northfield farmer whom Stassen made deputy State Agriculture Commissioner. Thus Stassen, who plans to give up office in April for active duty in the Navy, named his own successor...
...leviathans. Even these would be 30,000 tons bigger than the biggest now in the U. S. fleet, 23,900 tons bigger than Great Britain's Hood (biggest afloat), and would be too bulky to get through the Panama Canal. Said Sub-Committeeman Charles Albert Plumley of Northfield, Vt., thumbing his Yankee nose at the British: "I'm sick and tired of just match, match. This matching game is absurd. I want a winning team...
Pierce Butler was a poor boy, born near Northfield, Minn., on March 17, 1866, but he had no Lincolnian tenderness for those in humble circumstances. His own bitter struggle to the top only taught him that those who were successful need not be held responsible for those who failed...
RUTH CAROL HARLOW East Northfield, Mass...