Word: sleeted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Richard Ledger. London septuagenarian who plunged daily before breakfast into the Serpentine (muddy brooklet in Hyde Park) regardless of rain, sleet, hail, snow or ice. Instead of an overcoat he wore a paper waistcoat. He once announced: "My proudest possession is a letter from King George congratulating me upon my exceptional vigor...
...moment it seemed that this last scene would be too much for him. Ragged banners still flew in Albany, their legends, "Smith for President," mocked and cancelled by wind and sleet. Yet the Albanians were out to meet him in cheering, bomb-bursting thousands. Mayor John Boyd Thacher insisted on taking his arm through the crush, just as on triumphal occasions when the Brown Derby used to return as Governor-re-elect. Now he was President-reject...
Last week, Joe Sleet was engaged in divorcing his wife...
...Sleet: "That girl couldn't cook. She tried to fry a steak one day and used so much grease it was awful. And eat-why she would eat a cube of butter at one meal and drink a quart of milk...
Nellie: "Joe, dear, my answer is yes." In February, Joe Sleet sent Nellie Wallace a ticket and she came to El Paso. He saw then, for the first time, that Nellie Wallace was fat as butter; she appeared cheerful however and he did not regret his correspondence. They had a wedding...