Word: somes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Hoover last week had a chance to compare himself with Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. Both those great men were mentioned in an open letter to the White House from long-nosed William Randolph Hearst, who said he wanted President Hoover to make ''some reassuring utterance" at this time...
Detectives pondered the clues. The marauders' organized precision reminded crime-wise officials of the methods of James Nannery, "Bronx Badman." When some of the witnesses identified his picture in the rogues' gallery, imperative orders went out for his capture, dead or alive.
Chicago has no War memorial. Planning one, the city offered a $20,000 prize for a design. Last week, Rotarians were startled to read in their monthly magazine The Rotarian, some suggestions by Chicago War Hero Harold R. ("Private") Peat, "winner of more than one medal for distinguished service." Neither...
Great was the friendship between the late great Theodore Roosevelt and Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, onetime (1912-18) British Ambassador to the U. S. Last fortnight were published letters to and from Sir Cecil, among them, illuminating dark spots in history, some 25,000 new words of Rooseveltiana.† Wrote...
No wonder Firpo Greene postponed the taking of the Yale Football picture for six weeks after the game in the event of the non-return of the old fence. Without some sort of support it would certainly be at least six weeks before the team could stand up for a...