Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whale Watcher Sirs: In your issue of Sept. 9, on p. 60, you say there is no record of whales having been observed in actual copulation. By an odd coincidence, the third column on that same page carries the picture of the employer of a man who does state that he has seen whales under just such conditions. On the estate of Col. Green at South Dartmouth, Mass., is moored, perpetually in a concrete basin, the whaling bark Charles W. Morgan, said to be the last of the old New Bedford whalers, her only rival for that distinction having been...
...nearly two years ago received a letter, first public intimation, from the then Secretary of Commerce that he would run for President. Col. Brown managed the Commerce Secretary's campaign in Ohio. Last week a piece of paper fluttered down into the Senate, seeming to say "Eureka." President Hoover had at last found a Federal post appropriate for his friend, had nominated him to be Chief Counsel for the Federal Power Commission...
...appreciate this opportunity to say a word to the generation which presently will assume the responsibility of our banks, utilities, rail-roads, factories and all other assets," said Roger W. Babson, leading financial expert, to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday...
...meditated a moment, and then replied: "I see your point." And he agreed with me that while a good military school or staff college cannot guarantee the quantity production of Napoleons and Lees, it can and does produce competent officers of high professional spirit. I went on to say that even what he called "mere technical knowledge" goes a long way in forming successful character. It is basic for judgment; it enhances courage by dispelling baseless fears. If you will define and analyze "gumption," you will find that knowledge and training play their part in it. Indeed, the honest search...
...occasion of the opening of the Lady Lever Art Gallery at Port Sunlight, Lord Leverhulme attributed his success to his wife's "gracious influence," adding, however, that it would be a poor compliment to her to say that she was a business woman. "She was a womanly woman and her knowledge of business was nil." During the last few years of his life he rose at 4:30 a. m., spent 20 minutes in exercises, anticipated Calvin Coolidge in the use of an electric horse. For some years, however, he rode each morning a flesh-and-blood horse, always went...