Word: tweeds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Loch Ness, largest of Scotland's lakes (22½ mi. long, 1¾ mi. wide), bisects the Highlands from Inverness on the northeast to Fort Augustus- on the southwest. Near its narrow shores are many a Highland distillery, many towns and glens intimately connected with haberdashery: Inverness (tweed capes), Glen Urquhart (gents' suitings), Glen Garry (highland bonnets). Ben Nevis, best publicized mountain in Scotland, is only 30 mi. to the southwest. In August 1933 when workmen were blasting a new motor road along the west shore of the lake, the monster was first "seen." Eyewitnesses during the following...
...Colonel Green's entire estate to Mother Hetty, or in case of her death, to Sister Hetty." This will Mrs. Wilks filed for probate in the Surrogate Court of Essex County, N. Y. in which Lake Placid is located. Represented by the potent Manhattan law "firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hope & Webb, Sister Hetty said that her brother had not been a resident of New York, but owned property there...
Yaleman Charles Seymour is 52. Ruddy, well tailored, fond of rough tweed jackets and pipes, he does not suggest a distinguished historian (The Diplomatic Background of the War, 1870-1914; The Intimate Papers of Colonel House; American Neutrality, 1914-1917). He does suggest Yale. Son of Yale's longtime Greek Professor Thomas Day Seymour, he is descended from two Yale presidents and has been Yale royalty from his youth. That did not keep him from taking a B. A. degree at Cambridge before he entered Yale's Class of 1908. He managed the freshman and varsity crews, belonged...
...years ago when Elihu Root, aged 54, was an eminent corporation lawyer in Manhattan, the solace of Boss William Marcy Tweed and Financier Thomas Fortune Ryan, President McKinley drafted him as Secretary of War to organize the new colonial empire, which the U. S. had just acquired in its war with Spain. A year later when McKinley was running for reelection, it was suggested that Root run for Vice President to succeed Garret A. Hobart who had died in office. Root refused because he was in the midst of his job of giving new governments to Puerto Rico...
...clerk and Baltimore reporter, Mr. Oursler has written a successful melodrama (The Spider), a number of novels, a series of detective stories, and a book on travel and religion called A Skeptic in the Holy Land. Mr. Oursler is a capable prestidigitator and, say some, an expert ventriloquist. Tweed-coated, narrow-chinned, high of brow, Mr. Oursler has a vaguely ministerial appearance. This facile and versatile literary man does his writing and conducts his employer's magazines on a cliff's edge at West Falmouth, Mass. In stormy weather, the spume of Buzzards Bay flies almost...