Word: prowesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Roundly though Paris papers have recently flayed the French Ambassador to Washington, M. Paul Claudel, for buying a Packard, for boasting of its prowess, for being generally an apologist for Les Americains, last week he was at it again...
Plantation raised, immutably a Georgian, like all Atlantans he is proud of the prowess of Golfer Robert Tyre Jones Jr., prouder still that he once persuaded Golfer Jones to continue studying Latin at Technical High School. The legend: Golfer Jones, 14, refused to recite his Latin lessons, was invited to "talk it over" with Teacher Sutton. After discussing golf for 15 min., said Golfer Jones: "My father tells me that if I go to school I've got to take the full course, including Latin...
Many a publisher has pondered the same question about the gigantic one-man organization of 23 newspapers, 12 magazines. Many a Hearst executive of long service and tested prowess has wondered if he might, in the not-inconceivably remote future, be working for one or more of Publisher Hearst's five sons...
...finer strains of Siamese fighting fish are products of artificial selection, bred for stamina as well as fighting prowess. With good fish a fight will last for six hours. Unpedigreed ones are exhausted in 15 minutes...
...Manhattan Building bears soaring tribute to the four men (Paul Moritz Warburg, chairman of Manhattan Co.,** James P. Warburg, president of International Manhattan Co., John Stewart Baker, chairman of the executive committee of Manhattan Co., Stephen Baker, chairman of Bank of Manhattan Trust Co.) whose energy and banking prowess have brought their house to its present prominence among other Manhattan banks...