Word: taciturn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Theodore Roosevelt succeeded to the Presidency, the taciturn young secretary was invited to stay on at the White House. Soon the two were warm friends. "If I could only make you smile, George," said the Rough-Rider Colonel, "I could make you President of the United States." Roosevelt 1 could not make George Cortelyou smile but he could and did make him first Secretary of the new Department of Commerce & Labor. Year later Secretary Cortelyou resigned to become Chairman of the Republican National Committee, manager of President Roosevelt's 1904 campaign. Next he became Postmaster General and, finally...
...mine in North America. Alexander Baranof, first Governor of Russian America, bought copper from the Kennecott district Indians in the 18th Century to cast a bell. A hundred years later two grizzled sourdoughs stumbled upon what looked like grass on the mountainside at Kennecott, found pure copper ore. A taciturn young engineer named Stephen Birch bought their claims. With backing from Daniel Guggenheim, a railroad was pushed up the Copper River Valley, and the Kennecott mine opened in 1911. The first year of operation (1912), more than $20,000,000 in copper rolled down the rails to Tidewater...
Happy last week was Louisville's most famed bookmaker, taciturn Sam ("Dink") Dinklespiel, most of whose clients had bet on Edward Riley Bradley's Boxthorn. An amiable, round-paunched, ruddy-faced bachelor, Bookmaker Dinklespiel is the most phlegmatic member of his profession in the U. S. He says he cannot remember the biggest bets he has accepted because "those things make little impression...
...Navy Yard at Kittery. The Blaines, aristocrats of the neighborhood, looked down on the Bragdons as closefisted grubbers; so did everyone else but the no-account Linscotts. But the Bragdons had never been whiffle-minded, and Gus was the least whiffle-minded of the lot. He went his taciturn way, refused to get religion, left the church when his brethren's intolerance got too foolish for him. He worked long hours, salted away his cash, traded shrewdly in wood lots...
...island of Guernsey, lived in hermit-like sociability, 50 yards away from him, until the War. Fowler liked to work sitting in the door of his cottage, dressed in football jersey and shorts. At 50 Fowler quietly married a middle-aged hospital superintendent, as garrulous as he was taciturn. Their marriage was childless, happy, Darby-&-Joanish...