Word: queened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John F. Hylan, famed for what he did not accomplish as Mayor of New York City (1918-25) and for a remark his wife did not utter to Elizabeth, Queen of the Belgians,* last week earned pats on the back from his hometown newspapers. Fresh from a Florida vacation, he was once more setting out his political pot to boil in the warm sun of Manhattan subway disorders and "rampant vice," and in a lunch club talk he either coined or repeated a new word to describe political malefactors. "The latter are graftocrats!" he cried. The press cheered...
...Hylan is still falsely accused of having said: "You said a mouthful, Queen...
...Reverend Burnett Hillman Streeter, D. D., fellow and lecturer of Queen's College, Oxford, will give the first series of Hewett lectures during the second-half year. These lectures have been established upon a bequest of the late Professor Waterman Thomas Hewett, of Cornell University, and will probably be given at intervals of three of four years...
Other laughing matters-THE QUEEN'S HUSBAND, THE SHANNONS OF BROADWAY, BURLESQUE...
...disgruntled go-between was Emmet Queen, who claims that it was he, not Beman Gates Dawes (brother of the Vice President) who brought about Mr. Dillon's recent sale of the Pure Oil Co. to the Ohio Cities Gas Co. for $23,500,000. Mr. Queen asserts that Mr. Dawes was Mr. Dillon's "dummy" in the deal, and wants $1,100,000 go-between commission for himself...