Word: sheriffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...elected to the state legislature, served six terms, and added to them one term in the state Senate. His title of Colonel came to him when Governor Stickney appointed him to the gubernatorial staff. He was local tax-collector for 38 years, postmaster for 49 years and deputy sheriff for a "very long time." He married twice and had one son and one daughter (who died young). He was an influential man in his community, a good citizen and he reared his son to be President...
...news swept over the radio. Country dames, undisturbed since "Boney" pranced on the sands of Boulogne, barricaded themselves in remote closets. One sheriff from the north counties telephoned the Mayoress of Newcastle to learn what the constabulary was doing to frustrate the Red menace. But he was only carrying coals to Newcastle; for the Mayoress probably wanted to know herself...
...Woman of the World. Pola Negri in a light comedy is unusual. The light comedy is only fairly comic, which is rather more usual. She plays a European temptress who pounces down upon a small Iowa town and quite disrupts the population, including the stalwart and belligerent sheriff...
...sport. Harold Grange recently, it is reported, accepted $1,000 to say a certain brand of cigarets was good, although he saved his self-respect by refusing $10,000 which was offered him if he would say he smoked that brand. Honus ("Hans") Wagner, bowlegged shortstop, ran for sheriff in a Pennsylvania county. William T. Tilden found that he could get stories into magazines, although even his best friends agreed that his literary proficiency was none too good. Last week on an inside sheet of the Tampa Morning Tribune, a famed baseball manager turned his valorous name to shrewd...
...stopped," says he, "in towns of all sizes, and I found it necessary to invite the mayor, the sheriff, the chief of police or the constable of the town to inspect the exhibition, to prove to them that the pictures really moved...