Word: onrushingness
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A daring financier was Jonathan Ogden Armour, heir to the meat-packing fortune of famed, hard-boiled old Merchant Philip Danforth ("P. D.") Armour (1832-1901). Sometimes J. Ogden would rush in and buy where more conservative tycoons feared to tread. Result: The great packing concern his father and he...
To Brownie, a nine-month-old pooch of indeterminate breed living in Pasadena, Calif, went the prize. His deed: dragging his mistress, a 13 month-old child, from before an onrushing motor car. Explained one of the judges: "He was only a pup and it was the first time an...
Negaunee, Mich.; Emporia, Kan.; Pal myra, N. Y. ; Houston, Ark.; Commerce, Mo.; Pewee Valley, Ky. ; Waxahachie and Jacksonville, Tex.; Belfast, Me.; Oelwein, Iowa; Virginia Beach, Va., were other places whence the new Carnegie heroes hailed. Besides Hero Smith's silver medal, 23 bronze medals were awarded, ten of them posthumously...
Died. Wolf, 10, son of Lad and Lady, collies made famous by the stories of Albert Payson Terhune, at Pompton Lakes, N. J. Taking his usual evening stroll, Wolf was near the railroad station when a pariah dog got in front of an onrushing express. Wolf drove him from the...