Word: sunning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Hoover persuaded Alexander H. Legge to leave the $100,000 presidency of International Harvester Co. and serve as chairman of the Federal Farm Board at $12,000. Before the "butter brigade" could have at Mr. Legge's "sacrifice" and career, trenchant Frank R. Kent of the Baltimore Sun, an arch-Democrat except where President Hoover is concerned, wrote in "The Great Game of Politics," his daily column, as follows...
People who contribute to newspaper columns are very free with their signatures. Some make free with great names, sign themselves "Napoleon," "George Washington," "Calvin Coolidge." Others make free to be funny and call themselves names like Oscar Zilch, Wilton F. Cassowary, Ivan Offalitch. Conductor Harry Irving Phillips of the "Sun Dial" in the New York Evening Sun, did not think one way or another about the signature attached to some contributed verses he printed in early April, entitled "To a wife about to start on a shopping tour." The last stanza read: So when you dare declare...
...than his full share. Standing opposite Murray Dodge Hall, campus religious headquarters, he is passed daily by almost each & every student. At night, when pagan students are emboldened by potations from Bill & Jim's or other anti-prohibition stations, they frequently commune with the Christian Student. Many a sun has risen to find him hugging an empty bottle, or with indecent additions to his costume, outlandish colors on his anatomy...
...anxious to preserve a new freedom he had found when the menagerie truck in which he, a $2,500 show lion, had been riding was wrecked in a road smash. While the wreck was being untangled, Wallace had trotted down the road and lain down, blinking at the Dorset sun, rolling now and then in the Dorset dust. When his keeper approached, over a hedge had leaped Wallace and brought up in puzzlement before Nelly's calf...
...Author. Aged 20 in 1920, William R. Burnett married a 20-year-old wife in Springfield, Ohio. Not rich, both worked. All his free time, all his nights and Sun days of the next seven years, Burnett spent at his desk. He wrote five novels, 50 short stories. None of them satisfied publishers or himself...