Word: oak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Outside the Senate, he leads an active if restricted, life in Washington's most exclusive society. In his imposing mansion, "Single Oak," onetime home of Josephus Daniels, Wilson's Secretary of the Navy, set back from Cathedral Avenue in large, meticulously landscaped grounds, he entertains often and well. With the present Mrs. Phipps he displays to guests of the right social stamp generous hospitality in his Denver home, his Colorado mountain retreat, his Los Angeles estate...
...Oak Park, 111.. George D. Brown exhibited a small goldfish, Blondy, which he had trained to swim up to the top of his bowl when called...
...year ago, about three miles from Grand Junction, Tenn., a white and liver pointer bitch stopped short crossing a field and stood with her head turned into the wind, toward a patch of scrub oak 20 yards away. A moment later, a bevy of quail slanted into the air and someone blew a whittle. A shot gun went off, loud in the quiet fields, and there was a sudden babble of men's voices. "Did you see her on that last find? . . . As great a bitch as ever won the National...
...eastbound trains, induced draft for westbound) keeps the six-mile stretch clear of smoke. Expensive and well ventilated engineering tour de force though it is, the Moffat tunnel is little used. Few trains go puffing through it because there are no traffic centres beyond it more important than Craig, Oak Creek, Steamboat Springs (pop. 1,000). After passing through the tunnel, the Denver & Salt Lake ends at Craig, Col., without connecting with any transcontinental route. A 41-mile connecting line, the "Dotsero cut-off," between Orestod on the Denver & Salt Lake and Dotsero...
...reputed $15,000,000 fund raised by Mr. Lloyd George in the last years of his Prime Ministry, allegedly by selling peerages. He insists that he has never put a penny of the money in his own pocket, keeps it in the mythical Party Oak Chest to which he alone has the metaphorical...