Word: richards
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George Orson Welles (the George is for George Ade, a family friend) is the son of an inventor and a concert pianist. His father, Richard Head Welles, invented among other things: 1) a mechanical dishwasher which broke all the dishes, 2) a collapsible picnic set which the Government bought in large quantities for doughboys and which, according to Son Orson, "contributed greatly to the horrors...
Although five of the Crimson players have never handled a hockey stick before, the team is expected to display a united front before the Vassar onslaught. The Harvard attack will center about Richard S. Smith, formerly of the Oxford field hockey squad. Of the Crimson eleven, five are Oxford graduates who played the game in England in their undergraduate days...
Harvard men on the Crimson team are: Angus McIntosh '26, Richard S. Smith 1G, H. R. X. D'Aeth '2G, David C. Russell, 1G, John E. G. Raymond, 1G, Patrick H. Nowell-Smith, 1G, and Frank W. Hatfield...
...relentlessly pushed its investigation of the Richard Whitney failure, the famed name of Thomas W. Lament for the first time entered the case. Testifying in Washington, Morgan-Partner George Whitney revealed that he had borrowed from Morgan-Partner Lamont the $1,082,000 which he loaned his brother Richard last November to enable him to return securities of the Stock Exchange Gratuity Fund. Said he: "I told him [Lamont] that my brother was in a jam. ... I told him the general terms." Thus added to the record was the name of the second Morgan partner who was in a position...
...successive flights soared 335, 374, 405 miles (previous world's record: 313 miles), U. S. soaring experts began to wonder if the hills around Elmira, N.Y. and on the edges of Virginia's Shenandoah Valley really are the best places in the country for their sport. Richard Chichester du Pont, Paul du Pont, and Lewin Barringer of the Soaring Society of America looked at a map, picked out the great plains of northwest Texas and Oklahoma as the best spot for experimental thermal soaring...