Word: tweed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...already possessed by the Prince of Wales, continued to excite the Scots. At a dinner in the Authors' Club, attended by many Scotsmen, a toast was drunk to the health of "the Prince of Scotland." It was alleged that "there was no more beloved title north of the Tweed than the Prince of Scotland...
Elihu Root in his first famous case nearly went to jail for contempt of court. He and two other lawyers were in a suit, people against Boss Tweed. The suit was brought before Noah Davis. The lawyers objected to the Judge because he owed his position to Tweed, the man whom he was trying. Judge Davis pronounced Root and the two others guilty of contempt. The two others were fined, but Root was "let off because he was so young...
...auction of the late Lord Bryce's effects in London, a rare copy of his The American Commonwealth was knocked down for $16. This volume contained the unexpurgated chapter, withdrawn from later volumes, dealing with Tammany Hall and Tweed Ring corruption in Manhattan politics. This chapter cost Lord Bryce $50,000 in a law suit after his book was first published...
...arose before the break of day and after due preparations crossed over to the mainland at four o'clock. Here two automobiles were waiting, one was filled with luggage, the other was empty. A tall, well-groomed and self-possessed middle-aged man wearing a long gray tweed overcoat motioned to his servant to enter the luggage car; he entered the empty car and sat behind the steering wheel, and then motioned to the remaining three men to take their seats. One minute later both automobiles were carrying Friedrich Wilhelm, ex-Crown Prince of Germany, his adjutant, Major...
Harper's Weekly, long live its name, has been dead only a few years. It was one of the casualties of the War. Two generations ago the famous weekly carried the cartoons of Nast, which kindled the flame of public wrath and eventually consumed the corrupt tinder of the Tweed Ring. The New York Times was high priest over that burnt offering to the god of politics. But Harper's Weekly held the torch. Today a ghost of journalism has returned, announcing itself as the New Harper's Weekly, an " International Illustrated Journal...