Word: short
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with Keynoter Fess at Kansas City, who sounded crass and flatulent on the vague topic of Republican Prosperity. And so it was at Houston with Keynoter Bowers, who combined pedantry with abuse on Republican Corruption. An editorial writer on the New York Evening World, Claude Gernade Bowers is a short, slim, dark, studious, scholarly, quiet man in his middle years. His specialty is early U. S. history. Like many a bookish man he has his villain-Alexander Hamilton-and his heroes-Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson. He gained fame as an exciting speaker last winter when Democrats celebrated Jackson...
Alma Ek, Guggenheim Copper Co. official, was a passenger on the motor ship Santa Maria. Short of name, Globetrotter Ek is nevertheless long of stature (6 feet, 3 inches...
Said the hard-boiled Chicago Tribune: "The burghers will be inclined to, rejoice. . . . That is the short view. The man who killed O'Banion was tougher and more resourceful than O'Banion; the man who killed Hymie Weiss was tougher than his victim; and the man who killed Murphy was a harder egg than Murphy. As one gangster is killed off he is succeeded by an-other who is less restrained by the standards of civilized society. The progression is from fists to bombs, to pistols, or to machine guns." The Murphy murder quickly reverberated in Brooklyn...
Royal Displeasure. Livid with rage, Monsignor Ladeuze hired more huskies, called out the whole police force of Louvain, and got a plaster of paris replica of his smashed stones into place, while Architect Warren left disgustedly for Paris. Short-lived, however, was the Rector's triumph. Next day he received a message from His Royal Highness, Crown Prince Leopold of the Belgians, Duke of Brabant, who regretted that, under the circumstances, no member of the Royal Family would be present for the dedication of the new Library scheduled for July...
...doing badly; early in June Manager "Sunday School" Branch Rickey was ousted, Hornsby was made manager. Except that his face and hands were cleaner, he still looked much the same as he did when he played in Hugo-wiry and compact, jutting jaw, small eyes, his upper lip too short to cover his strong, uneven front teeth. The New York Giants bid a quarter of a million for him. They were told curtly: "Hornsby is not for sale." In his first full year as manager (1926), he brought the Cardinals their first pennant and the World's Championship...