Word: stroking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Europe thereby gained a unique distinction. There was little else that Jay Gould could not buy. On occasion, he found it advisable and practicable to buy railroads, judges, newspapers, city governments, friends, banks. Once, when his mind conceived the extraordinary stroke of cornering Gold, he attempted, and very nearly accomplished, the purchase of the U. S. government...
Dutch courtiers know a story of how the little Princess made herself Queen of the Netherlands by a single bold stroke. Senile King Willem had been paying court to her elder sister, Princess Helen, who tactfully refused him on account of his age and reputation. At this crucial moment young blooming Princess Emma is said to have entered the room, exclaiming reproachfully, "Oh Helen, / should never refuse to be a queen!" To counteract the sensation produced by this generally believed tale, Princess Emma's mother herself arranged to convey a subsequently made proposal of marriage from King Willem...
...Master Stroke. Politically the Kellogg Treaty is an undoubted master stroke. Its existence will enable Candidate Hoover and other campaigning Republicans to point with pride to a resounding international achievement...
Died. Charles Delano Henry, 84, Cali fornia banker, father-in-law of Nominee Herbert Clark Hoover; of a paralytic stroke; in Placerville, Calif...
...Second Stroke? Having obtained General Motors' Raskob for his national manager, Nominee Smith was reported to be seeking General Electric's Young-Owen D. Young, board chairman of the General Electric Company-for his local lieutenant as Democratic candidate for Governor of New York. That would be a second stroke in the effort to show the country that there are big business brains beneath the Brown Derby...