Word: tweed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whenever in the last five years the Navy was up in Congress for debate and action, a big thick-shouldered man in a tweed suit, a red necktie and yellow shoes, could generally be found striding up and clown the Capitol's corridors, buttonholing Congressmen and Senators, passionately urging them to vote for the biggest kind of U. S. fleet, hoarsely warning them against the imperialism of Great Britain. His name was William B. Shearer. He was in his early 40's. His voice was the voice of a 16-in. gun booming arguments and demands for more ships. Well...
...York City Board of Elections, Grand Sachem of the Society of St. Tammany, celebrated his 100th birthday. It was a three-day festival, including a boat trip around Manhattan, dinners, speeches galore. A Democrat since he voted for Franklin Pierce in 1852, Mr. Voorhis fought William Marcy Tweed and the "Old Tammany," received his first office, Commissioner of Excise, in 1873 under the reform administration of Mayor Havemeyer. He was long the city's Police Commissioner. Continuously in public service since, his jobs have always been appointive...
Married. Michael Strange (real name Blanche Oelrichs), poetess, authoress, actress, divorced wife of Leonard Thomas (No. 1) of Actor John Barrymore (No. 2); and Harrison Tweed, Manhattan attorney; in London...
Leader Curry came down to the reception room, seated himself in the big "boss" chair of Tweed, Croker, Murphy, Olvany. "This feels good," he purred...
Meanwhile Queen Mary occupied herself by buying seven handbags and two children's pails with shovels. Six of the bags were tweed covered, to match tweed skirts; the seventh was a beige traveling bag, lined with oil silk...