Word: round
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...probably months hence-the Shipping Board will not at once dissolve. The Shipping Board's ultimate purpose is to build up U. S. shipping. Bids of every form must carry certain guarantees of performance by the purchasers. Any one buying the Palmetto Line, for example, must guarantee 24 round voyages per annum between South Atlantic ports and Continental Europe for five years. The Shipping Board is the logical agency to see such guarantees fulfilled, to take back the ships in case of default...
...round, placid, motherly lady who was Katie Dunn of the Bronx, then Mrs. Smith of Oliver Street, then the wife of Assemblyman Smith, then a four-time Governor's wife and finally a candidate for First Lady of the Land, emerged from her husband's friend's private car and smiled contentedly at Houston. Newsgatherers waiting at her hotel were soon handed a mimeographed statement by the lady's experienced secretary, Miss Rose Pedrick...
Texas Guinan's Mimic Helen Morgan's Merry-Go-Round Blue Hour Charm Furnace Ferndale Don Royale Silver Slipper Jungle Luigi's Beaux Arts Frivolity European Greenwich Social La Frera Knight The raiders were 100 Federal agents, picked from distant districts, whom Prohibition Commissioner James M. Doran ordered to Manhattan in February to "get the lay." In couples and squads and single, well-dressed and well-heeled, they had ingratiated themselves with night club proprietors. Helen Morgan, actress-hostess, was angered to discover that the "Mr. & Mrs. Lon Tyson" whom she had played with for weeks...
...clubs, lined up smoothly behind the Yankees: at Philadelphia a galaxy of famed veterans; a young St. Louis team, fighting, surprising; Washington with many stars that might develop; Cleveland slumping after a burst in the early season; Boston trying hard, well-bossed by Carrigan, but raw; Chicago weak all round; Detroit expensive, theoretically strong, but actually little better than Chicago. They considered personalities: Ed Morris, Boston pitcher, called the best youngster in either league; Chalmers Cissel, swaggering Chicago shortstop who, drying himself in a locker room, said scornfully in early season: "Major league pitching is more of a cinch than...
...college boys played golf. Sturdy Maurice McCarthy Jr., of Georgetown, well recovered from the stage fright he suffered when given Walter Hagen as a playing partner in the National Open, drubbed John A. Roberts of Yale in the finals. Put out in an early round, Watts Gunn of Georgia Tech., famed friend of Bobby Jones, said: "I've got to quit this game. I'm going to get a job." Three curly-headed players from Princeton and one Charles Grace (son of the President of the Bethlehem Steel Corp.) won the team championship...