Word: stowe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stow away?" he was asked...
...trip to Europe. At this season of the year with the so-called spring fever attacking everyone, to put foot within an "ocean greyhound", a "floating metropolis" or what not is enough to cause even the most stolid to think twice before deciding definitely not to stow away. The writing of this little tribute to insanity and mental vagrancy is fairly definite proof that no such glorious prank was played on the steamship company; at least by this party, but the excitement attendant upon such an event has completely upset our mental processes and we can think of nothing better...
Married. Robert Stow Bradley, 71, chairman of American Agricultural Chemical Co.; to Mrs. Florence S. Johnson, 58, of Bennington, Vt.; in Manhattan...
...made her first voyage. Rising from the ground at Dearborn, Mich., she flew, in a morning, to Chicago, unloaded and reloaded and returned to the Ford airport at Dearborn the same afternoon. Henry and Edsel Ford witnessed the plane's departure. Mrs. Henry Ford was on hand to stow the first parcel of freight in the plane. "Ultimately," said Edsel Ford, "we hope to link our plants at Chicago, at St. Louis, at St. Paul, at Iron Mountain, Mich., with air transport lines...
...where the Civil, Spanish, and Great Wars were conducted, where Webster, Clay, Sumner, and other great men of the past gathered in solemn conclave; where, indeed as Dickens once described, one could see "so many honorable members with swelled faces.... caused by the quantity of tobacco they contrive to stow within the hollow of the cheek. It is strange enough too, to see, an honorable gentleman leaning back in his tilted chair with his legs on the desk before him, shaping a convenient plug with his penknife, and when it is quite ready for use, shooting his old one from...