Word: patch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...William Francis Carey, new head of the oldtime Garden, newcomers will find no sleeping adversary. He is 50, a bronzed six-footer. He was born a farmer's son near Hoosick Falls, N. Y., earned $11 with his own cabbage patch while still very young and struck out for the West with that $11 as his capital. He learned rail road construction in the Colorado camps...
...across the Hudson. Delaware, Schuylkill and Susquehanna Rivers, from Manhattan to Washington, to serve as Secretary of War. President Wilson commissioned him a colonel of artillery and sent him across the Atlantic to fight with the 77th Division. President Coolidge despatched him first, across the Caribbean to Nicaragua to patch up a peace between Diaz and Sacasa and later across the Pacific to be Governor General of the Philippines. President Hoover recalled him to sit at his right hand at the Cabinet table...
...Senators will see, tripping politely up to their august rostrum, a slim person in her early 30's, with bright blond hair and a ready smile. Lola Williams got on in the world by cultivating a small potato patch of her own in a corner of the family farm; later by selling newspaper subscriptions. She reached Washington in 1918, a trained secretary looking for a job. The War Department took her in as a clerk until Senator Curtis found her. Now she is queen Secretary of the whole vast capitol...
...fourth quarter Captain Gaunt of the New Hampshire quintet re-opened the attack with two goals. These were followed by several long shots by both teams which tied the score a number of times. NEW HAMPSHIRE HARVARD Stovolosky, r.f. l.g., Rex Tilton, Patch, l.f. r.g., Farrell Small, c. c., Burns Hagstrom, r.g. l.f., Wenner, Ward Gaunt, l.g. r.f., Mahady...
...like. Mr. Penney, like Mr. Hoover, followed a stressful, impoverished career to a felicitous climax. James Penney is now 54. His father was a Missouri Baptist parson. James was the seventh of 12 children. At the age of eight he earned his own clothing with a piggery, a watermelon patch. He ran a small store where the currency was pins. Stores of various kinds have occupied him ever since; he has been store clerk or storekeeper in Colorado, Wyoming, Utah. On $50 a month, he married Berta A. Hess of Denver. She died in 1910, left two sons.* By this...