Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lady Maud Hoare, wife of Air Minister Sir Samuel Hoare, superintended last week the packing of a small week-end bag. Into it went two nightgowns and three sets of undergarments, all of sheerest silk. Then a sheer afternoon gown. Finally a set of especially made featherweight aluminum toilet articles...
...dawn waxed into day the new $100,000 biplane Hercules taxied from a hangar amid the roar of its three Jupiter engines. "Flying bores me," said Sir Samuel to e newsgatherer, "it is all the same after the first five minutes. I usually read or go to sleep...
Last week Samuel Breadon, owner of the world's champion St. Louis baseball "Cardinals," traded Rogers Hornsby, player-manager, called "the greatest batter in baseball" to the New York Giants for Frank Frisch, the second baseman, and a right-handed pitcher named James Ring...
Died. Richard Cary ("Uncle Richard'') Morse, 85, famed pioneer Y. M. C. A. official; at his Brooklyn home; of general breakdown, following a severe cold. Nephew of Painter-Inventor Samuel F. B. Morse he attended Yale, rowed on the 'Varsity crew, graduated in 1862. Student for the ministry, he was persuaded to become religious editor (1867-69) of the New York Observer; wrote for it a report of a meeting of the Y. M. C. A (then a struggling fledgling) which won him an official position with the organization; became eventually (until 1915) general secretary...
...Samuel Untermeyer, corporation lawyer: "My counsel fees are among the highest in the profession. For $100 no one can hire me to walk out my office door, if that walking displeases me. Yet last week I was given a fee of $83.75 for representing Allen R. Ryan, son of Thomas Fortune Ryan. I was his lawyer when he went bankrupt, after his 1920 corner of Stutz Motor stock, with $9,000,000 of unsecured debts. Last week those debts were liquidated for approximately 18½c on the dollar. My $83.75 represented my original...