Word: ot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pools for many a tycoon. Of his three brothers, William Astor was an African explorer, had his leg amputated because it bothered him; John Armstrong (Chaloner) made a spectacular escape from Bloommingdale Asylum, changed his name, lives now in Virginia, legally sane; a third, Lewis Stuyvesant became Lieutenant Governor ot New York. Giant, genial Brother Bob got elected sheriff by servicing farmers cows with a prize bull. He used to hunt for robbers at night disguised as a cowboy. He was married twice (once, briefly, to famed Diva Lina Cavalieri). He had innumerable friends, knocked three town houses together...
...Manhattan. When this bank merged with National City he was made a vice president on the National City Staff, a position which he recently resigned. His rise compares with that of Robert Livingston Clarkson, who became president of Albert Henry Wiggin's Chase National at the age ot 34 and who is now, aged 38, vice chair-man of Chase, "world's biggest bank...
...wound. He had begun to be fed up with the War, finally decided he ought to do something about it. He wrote a formal statement of his refusal to return to the front (although he was not going to be sent back), "as an act of wilful defiance ot military authority, because I believe that the War is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it." He sent this statement to his colonel, was immediately ordered to report. To the colonel's great embarrassment, he found Sassoon wanted to be court-martialled, to be a martyr...
...this unsavory pastry the Journal added the suds of an 800-word editorial: ". . . It is a pity that scientific workers should be compelled to pause in their pursuits to evade the buzzing and pestering of the musca [fly] Ambruster. . . . The Journal . . . will continue to devote little of its interest ot space in the future to unfounded charges, to insinuations without evidence, to the calling of names, or to cacoethes scribendi [itch for writing] on the part of any commercial assailant...
...Baldwin's prize: One quart ot milk per day for three months...