Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Indianapolis, they last week mourned the sudden death from heart failure of Samuel Lewis ("Lew") Shank, 55, farm boy, clog dancer, vaudeville trouper, auctioneer and twice mayor of Indianapolis...
...Republicans elected shambling Samuel Shank, "friend of the poor people," to be Mayor of Indianapolis. The next year he became nationally known by hawking potatoes, geese, onions, eggs, tomatoes and cheeses from the steps of his city hall in an effort to break a commission merchants' trust. A street car strike ended his term prematurely, the carmen refusing to promise they would strike no more while he was mayor. He had threatened to resign if they failed to promise and he made the threat good...
...Scotsman came to London. The two salient qualities of his mind were enthusiasm and an insatiable, embarrassing curiosity. Soon he came to worship at a popular shrine of which the idol was a fat, brilliant, untidy person, a rude and witty talker, a man of letters and a genius?Samuel Johnson. For many, this grotesque icon had lost his potency by the time he died. Not so for James Boswell, who bequeathed to the world two important things: one, The Life of Samuel Johnson, a monument to the curiosity of the author and the conversation of the subject, admittedly...
...with gauze so that they might last perhaps forever. The manuscript of An Account of Corsica had been preserved intact, as had letters from Boswell to his wife, to his sons, to William Pitt, to William Temple, to Edmund Burke, to Edmund Malone, to Isabella de Zuylen ("Zelide"), to Samuel Johnson...
...Britain, Conn., Harry Blews looked forward to 52 Sundays in church. He had bet his Sunday mornings for a year on Dempsey against the Rev. Samuel Sutcliffe, whose stake was a promise to buy at least five-cents worth of sweets for 365 days, in Blew's ice cream store...