Word: self
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With him was Mrs. Stimson, quiet, self-effacing, always loyal to her husband's ascending career. As Mabel Wellington White of New Haven, Conn., the new second lady of the land married Statesman Stimson in 1893 when he was just entering Elihu Root's law firm and long before he became a statesman. In Manila last year she appeared at a state function in Balin-tawak (native costume). Being second lady holds no social terrors for her. She was well-schooled in official society as the wife of President Taft's Secretary...
...Aeroplane & Motor Co., Inc., the Buffalo Chamber of Commerce grants prime importance in the community. President Clement Melville Keys, who has every one of his fingers in some aviation pie or other, and Vice President C. Roy Keys, his brother, have made Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor one of the largest self-contained units of the industry. Almost all present aircraft concerns make only planes, buy their motors elsewhere. Curtiss manufactures motors as well as ships. Curtiss builds Hawks, Falcons, Condors and Fledglings, all military planes which can be modified for transports and gadabouts. In motors it builds the powerful Challenger...
Bellhops. Scandalous to logically and literally minded Latins was the jocular organization, last week, by associates and assistants of the U.S. delegation, of what they proceeded to call "The Bellhops' Club." With untempered levity the self-styled "Hops" elected as their "Chief Bellhop" the famed Yankee lawyer who as Commissioner General of the League of Nations for Hungary stabilized the finances of that nation−Jeremiah Smith Jr. By-laws provide for the "exclusion of any Bellhop caught working," and the purpose of the organization seemed to be frequent luncheons at the Hotel George V de luxe seat...
...come here and be stylish! We haven't got any duty involved! Back home there may have been a law against enjoying ourselves the way we wanted to, but there's none here!" "My dear Sam, it's a matter of keeping one's self-respect . . ." Finally came the dismal feminine finish: "Oh, you simply can't understand...
...almost inexplicable to common men. For several years the members of the bureau have been quietly helping their less successful follows to pass their less successful follows to pass their mid-year examinations. The absence of any charge for this service places the work upon a plane of undiluted self-sacrifice, since the teaching experience is of such a specialized nature that it must seldom be of any future...