Word: olds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...After I was elected in 1926 I received an invitation signed Walter J. Fahy. . . . I threw it in the waste basket. . . . Then I came on down to Washington and I met [Senator Moses] who said: 'You have not answered Fahy's letter. . . . He's an old friend of Norris and La Follette and he is giving a friendly dinner.' I said 'All right, if that's all there is to it I'll go' and I went...
...Sing Sing, a name which chimes fearfully in the ears of malefactors, which calls up to all U. S. citizens a vision of bleak grey prison walls, is not a "bad" prison. From the Indian "ossine ossine"? "stone upon stone"?came its name, appropriate to the old damp-walled dungeon beside the river, with cells 7 ft. x 3 ft. 3 in. x 6 ft. 6 in., built in 1825. But today most of the inmates live in new cell blocks on the hill above the Hudson River. The sizeable cells are equipped with modern sanitary apparatus...
Joliet, Ill. Illinois has two prisons there, the old dingy, dank bastile, in Joliet and the new structure nearby called Stateville, with circular, sanitary, well-lighted cell blocks. Major Henry C. Hill is warden of both. He keeps his two most famed prisoners, boy-murderers Leopold and Loeb. in old Joliet in cramped, dark cells, with buckets for sewage disposal. He allows them one day's yearly recreation, the Fourth of July, unless it rains...
Professional Texan, old-style, is Owen P. White, storyteller. Professional Texan, new style, is Gene Howe, editor of the Amarillo Globe-News, son of old-time Ed Howe, "Sage of Potato Hill" (Atchison, Kan.). Story-teller White lately helped Collier's magazine into a million-dollar libel suit by flaying, old-style, the political monkey-business of Rentfro Banton Creager and other Texas Republicans in Hidalgo County (TIME, Sept. 16). Editor Howe has obtained publicity for his little cow-&-gas town of Amarillo by flaying, new style, such national figures as Mary Garden and Charles Augustus Lindbergh (TIME, April...
Last week Texan Howe got some more publicity by attacking Texan White on a question of prime importance to all professional Texans, namely: What does a Texas rattlesnake do when you go to blow its head off with your six-shooter? Texan White had written, old-style, that the snake will follow the movement of the gun-muzzle so closely with its head that you cannot fail to hit the snake's head when you pull the trigger. Texan Howe experimented, fired many a shot at many a Crotalus adamanteus atrox, missed their heads again and again, then angrily...