Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Following a meeting of the Harvard Committee of the Regulation of Athletic Sports at the Harvard Athletic Association offices last night, W. J. Bingham '16, Chairman of that body and Director of Athletics in the University, announced that Henry S. Thompson '99 had been appointed Graduate Treasurer of the H. A. A. to succeed Major F. W. Moore '93, who died suddenly last spring...
William S. Thompson, Western Union telegraph operator, last week announced the invention of a device that will transmit distress sig- nals (or any other messages) automatically, thus releasing the oper- ator from his duty of signaling for help even while the ship sinks. It can be used on airplanes as well...
great liar is entirely ignoble. J. Daniel Thompson, for instance, pretends for. the sake of his daughter's admiration, to be understudy to Richard Mansfield in Cyrano de Bergerac, whereas in reality he clanks chains and chews raw meat in the role of Wild Man at the 14th Street Palace of Living Wonders. Before that he was a vender of snake oil and Indian cure; and his compound sentences, derived from long professional practice, are rolled with an unctuous grandeur by George Hassell, who plays him to the last shake of his ponderous belly. You have the feeling that...
...private cars filled with propaganda rolled out of a Chicago terminal. They held bundles of pamphlets, screeching posters, loud bulletins ablaze with declaration. Also eight bead-eyed press agents and William Hale Thompson III, more commonly known for his bulk and his battering dominion over Chicago politics as "Big Bill." They were going out among the people of the cities of Minneapolis, Omaha, Denver, Cheyenne, Ogden, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Albuquerque, Emporia, Topeka, Kansas City. As early as Sept. 20, they would all (except the pamphlets, posters, bulletins) be back in Chicago to "superintend" the Tunney-Dempsey prize fight...
...meeting of the school board, Mr. McAndrew rehearsed his teacher-clerk testimony and his conception of his duty so clearly, that the ouster vote was tied at 5 to 5. President Coath was obliged to perform a clumsy coup de grace with his deciding vote to make the Thompson campaign promise seem to come true...