Word: skillfull
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mr. Phillips is a Harvard man of wealth and deep Bostonian rootage.* He had a classmate (1900) from St. Louis: Robert Woods Bliss, who also married a Manhattan girl of wealth and grace (Mildred Barnes). Mr. Bliss began to serve the U. S. in Porto Rico and has subsequently been...
But from the intelligentsia of this country, and indeed of the world, President Eliot was most fortunate in receiving untold praise a few years before on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday. And since his death the same intellectual class have again pronounced encomiums clothed in the finest literary dress...
"The whole attack is a skillful attempt to create a political bugaboo. . ."
A lifelong vegetarian, stocky, muscular, soft-voiced, with a shock of greying hair and a flowing Windsor necktie, Mr. Kellogg has been an outdoor man all his days. On his valley ranch in California he grows corn twelve feet high, according to his less skillful neighbors, by singing to it...
Benny Leonard, onetime undefeated lightweight champion of the world: "Of course, I don't fight any more. I've made lots of money and own real estate. Besides, I promised my mother I would never enter the ring again. And in the Sept. 4 issue of Collier'...