Word: risers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York already has two Democratic Senators firmly embedded in their red-leather chairs at Washington. He has business offers (here his feline pacing), plenty of them. William Randolph Hearst wants him to write a syndicated daily article in the manner of Will Rogers. Though a late riser and no outdoor sportsman, he is ready to endorse anything from alarm clocks to golf balls, for proper inducement per endorsement. The talkies have been seeking his glib services. Big concerns have sought him as their publicity man. He has offers that would make him a millionaire. His friends tell him (here...
Born. To Dr. and Mrs. William Howell Riser Jr. of Atlanta, Ga., twin children; boy, girl. Mrs. Riser's father is John Huston Finley, famed associate editor of the New York Times...
Inasmuch as so many of the courses which the intellectually inclined are wont to attend, occur betimes of a morning, in fact somewhere in the vicinity of 9 o'clock, to attend them makes it necessary to be an early riser. And here we strike a definite snag. The most important requisite to an early rising is fine weather. The urge to lie abed is considerably overcome by an overcast...