Word: tomming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...should join the World Court; Senator Borah, who came away saying that the President would be firm with debtor Europe; Representative Hamilton Fish Jr., to urge the President to apply the criminal law to Americans abroad who speak contrary to the Administration's determinations ; Negro Tom Lee of Memphis, who was commended by the President for having saved the lives of 32 persons at the recent sinking of the Mississippi River steamer Norman...
Heroes, statesmen, scientists crowned with honors, are exalted by the lofty shafts of monuments. Even so on Cardiff Hill, at Hannibal, Mo., will be raised a shaft to crown the honors of the heroic gemini-Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn...
...Rainbow Trail. Tom Mix, just returned from a triumphant tour of Europe, thunders across one more stretch of prairie in The Rainbow Trail and indicates once more why he is one of the highest salaried actors in the world. He is brave, handsome, picturesque, honorable. He kills Indians, saves a noble white girl. The cowboy is about the only ancient chivalry we have. Mr. Mix is the cardinal cowboy...
...connection with such a low-priced* cigar as those advertised." Other cigars named for famed persons : 15 cents or less: Peter Schuyler, Rob ert Burns, (Daniel) Webster,f (Vitus) Bering (discoverer of the Straits), ‡ William Penn, Raphael, Duke of Savoy, Flor de Spencer, Hanan Bros. (Shoe People), Tom Wilson, Lady Churchill, Captain Marryat. More than 15 cents: Henry Clay, Manuel Garcia. Cigars named after fictional persons: Monte Cristo, Robin Hood...
...Tom, however, was obdurate, and our ways parted. While I fought my way, inch by inch, through the Five-Foot Shelf, Tom spent his evenings improving himself by the I. C. S. method. By the time I reached the foot mark, Tom's salary had been raised. Three inches more, and it was doubled. Three inches more, and Tom was assistant to the manager of his department. My salary had stood still, but I was not downcast; for I had acquired nearly one-third of a liberal education. How little I realized what lay ahead . . . years of disappointments and failures...