Word: reasoner
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...with all this, there seems to be no particular reason why Mr. Bingham should try to schedule the annual indoor intercollegiate track meet at the Boston Garden. Boston and Harvard have already their share of track features during the winter: the B. A. A. games, the Knights of Columbus games, and the Triangular meeting of Cornell, Dartmouth, and Harvard the very week before the intercollegiate championships. This year, with all the local avidity for track sports, the Triangular meet suffered at the hands of professional hockey games, and other attractions. Set down in the middle of Boston's crowded winter...
Poor docile Milly was distraught. Ten years before she had started sinning, but for nine of the ten she had been so accustomed to her comfortable afternoon-a-week with Arthur that she had left off thinking it sin. Moreover Arthur, that elderly refreshment, was the reason she was able to be so good a wife to Ernest. Ernest had benefited by "the backwash," as it were, of her happiness with Arthur...
...ambitions of Charles Farrand Taplin, who is trying to put together a fast coal route from Toledo to the Atlantic and all of whose prospective roads (particularly the Western Maryland) are included in the B. & O. plan. The Pennsylvania, affluent, central, well satisfied with existing conditions, has no more reason to applaud new consolidations than Great Britain had reason to applaud Napoleon's armies or the Kaiser's navy...
Especially after his engagement to Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow's daughter Anne (TIME, Feb. 25), the rumor grew that President-Elect Hoover would give Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh a sub-Cabinet job. The rumor vexed Mr. Hoover. Perhaps that was a reason for Col. Lindbergh's unexpected appointment last week by Secretary Whiting to be technical adviser to the aeronautical branch of the Department of Commerce...
Maurice Chevalier. This keen, young, handsome French song-singer has long been a good reason for a trip to Paris. Now he has come to the U. S. Primarily he came to make motion pictures but, while the operator is changing the reels, Mr. Ziegfeld has captured him for that Midnight Frolic which Mr. Ziegfeld insists is "atop" the New Amsterdam Theatre. Best songs: about Valentine, and M. et Mme. Elephant...