Word: stroking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vare was a sick man last May. But he got out of bed, went to the Kansas City convention, played a conspicuous hotel-room part prior to the nomination of Mr. Hoover. Soon after, he had a paralytic stroke...
Died. Elinor Wylie, 42, famed poetess and novelist (Jennifer Lorn, the Venetian Glass Nephew, Orphan Angel), wife of Poet William Rose Benet, of Manhattan, from a paralytic stroke; in Manhattan. She leaves a son, Philip Hichborn, Harvard senior...
...containers of everything from velocipedes and sewing machines to a porcelain statuette of Buddha for Aunt Agatha, who has just discovered the possibilities of Oriental art. The triumph of which he is really proudest, however, does not lie in the impressive pile of his purchases, but rather in the stroke of policy that succeeded in settling a matter fully as difficult for him as the original purchasing...
Whetted by his first stroke of high finance, Fisk brashed into Wall Street, but with indifferent success until Uncle Dan'l Drew, dour and dignified and sanctimonious, took the mustachioed youngster under his batlike wing. Drew was the man who drove thirsty live stock into Manhattan, and having watered it just before weighing it, greatly increased the pounds for sale, thus originating the financial term of "watering stock...
...which no ultra-fashionable gathering is complete, but she also represents the old conservatism of the Dean's office ante-room. Long noted for the maintenance of the older "good form" even in the midst all that makes night life, 1928 model, the Union management has made a master stroke in its latest effort to combine the old and the new while still retaining the best features of both...