Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...season, Washington society was convulsed by the celebrated Peggy O'Neill Eaton case. While the details of the Eaton and Gann cases are not similar, analogies between them have been drawn. Peggy O'Neill was the daughter of a Washington innkeeper. She was pretty and pert-and sharp-tongued as any barmaid. Andrew Jackson put up at the O'Neill tavern with his Tennessee friend, John H. Eaton. In January, 1829, Eaton married Peggy. On March 4, Jackson became President and appointed Eaton his Secretary of War. Washington society turned fiercely upon Mrs. Eaton, refused to accept...
...private acts of Albanians need no longer conform to the precepts of the True Prophet. Finally a salutary Swiss provision against carrying concealed weapons will completely alter, if it can be enforced, one of the most cherished customs of Albanians, who have always gone about with loaded pistols and sharp snicker-snees in their dirty blouses...
Likewise the President has put in a new system of buzzers: one short sharp ring brings Secretary George Akerson. Other signals summon lesser secretaries, stenographers, doormen...
...Pale, sharp-featured, Cineman Fox plasters his thin hair over his head to make it reach as far as possible. With a similar objective, but with greater success, he has recently expanded with purchase after purchase his enormous business organization. Born in Tulchva, Hungary, in 1879, he came, a small boy, to Manhattan's East Side, there peddled shoe polish which his father made over the family stove. Later, he sponged pants, coats in a Manhattan tailoring shop. Still later he cut out cloak and suit patterns for $17 a week. Twenty-five years ago, when feature pictures were...
Harvard will be playing its first game since March 23 when it rode to triumph over Pennsylvania Military College to gain the intercollegiate title. Captain F. D. Sharp, polo mentor, has however kept his squad in shape by holding several practice sessions during the two weeks rest from competition...