Word: shermans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Meanwhile, in order that the newspapers might be well supplied with barbs for their shafts, he published an entire issue of his magazine written by famous daughters of famous men?Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, President Harrison, Horace Greeley, William M. Thackeray, William Dean Howells, General Sherman, Mr. Gladstone and a score of others. . . . Benjamin Harrison's articles on 'This Country of Ours' appeared successfully in the magazine...
...President sat down at the Pershing desk, went to work. Above him was a starry blue ceiling. Statues of Grant and Sherman peered over his shoulder. War relics lined the paneled walls. From his east window the President could see across the street the reason for his move: the charred ruins of his own executive offices within the White House grounds...
...Aviation tycoons, among them Richard Hoyt, Sherman Fairchild, Giuseppe Bellanca, William Stout, dining with the National Gliders Association in Manhattan last fortnight, offered nearly $50,000 to promote the useful sport of gliding. They foresaw 1,000,000 glider pilots in 1935 who could easily learn to fly motored planes...
...Evans Edge, embarking as Ambassador to France. But in New Jersey many a Republican looked with anything but joy upon Dwight Whitney Morrow's decision to leave his embassy in Mexico City and-after the London naval conference-succeed Mr. Edge in the Senate (TIME, Dec. 9). Joseph Sherman Frelinghuysen of Raritan, N. J., and his friends had long been planning to boost Mr. Frelinghuysen back into the Senate seat he lost in 1922. He had already entered the Jersey Republican primary when Governor Larson announced the Morrow appointment. With a contest inevitable, Frelinghuysen friends charged that Mr. Morrow...
...soldier of fortune who earns his living fighting wars for popinjay princes and who takes a dislike to his current employer because of a remark the latter has passed about his (Crack's) mother. Best shot: Crack, at the battle front, making sissified King Leopold (Lowell Sherman) drop a handkerchief as a signal for shooting an officer...