Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chairman Stewart was a major with the Spanish-American War Rough Riders; held a colonelcy during-long years with the South Dakota National Guard. He was in South Dakota politics before becoming Standard Oil Co. of Indiana's general attorney in 1907. He is a large man, at 61 years hale and strong, a sturdy pacer to his executives at their work. He can do so, Barron's Weekly revealed last week, by means of a trick of recuperation that he has developed. He can go to sleep at will-for minutes or hours, to wake up later...
Others were: Count Albert Ap-ponyi, grand old man of Hungary, stalwart, patriarchal, kindly; Diarmuid O'Hegarty of the Irish Free State, soporific by his extreme laxity; Michael MacWhite, also of the Irish Free State, onetime Foreign Legionnaire, rough and ready...
...crowds, voices rough with cheering, rose from the robin's egg blue stands, and settled them selves in $40,000,000 worth of au- tomobiles. F. Ambrose Clark's tal ly-ho wound its horn and dashed away. Out over the magic carpet swarmed 51 brown men, armed with stomps. They mended the magic carpet, smoothing the hoof cuts of the ponies. Next week the magic carpet would be smooth and green again and the thousands gather for the series' second game...
...undreamed of success. Such a success that William Randolph Hearst engaged Mr. Payne to edit his New York tabloid, the Daily Mirror. The Mirror jumped amazingly in circulation. Last week Philip A. Payne jumped from Old Orchard, Me., in Mr. Hearst's airplane the Old Glory; splashed into the rough and foggy sea, disappeared...
...means the only, ny no means the most important, although the most famed, land engagement in the Spanish-American -war. Other simultaneous battles were at El Caney (U. S. victory), Aguadores (U. S. defeat). Had the 500 Rough Riders been elsewhere, the capture of Santiago would have been made by the remaining 15,000 infantry and cavalry...