Word: virginian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Author. Newton D. Baker, 54, West Virginian by birth, educated at Johns Hopkins, was City Solicitor and Mayor of Cleveland through a stirring municipal upheaval and Secretary of War during the Great War. He is short of stature,slim, dark, shell-spectacled. His resemblance to Charles Lamb, Voltaire and Mephistopheles is amusing; but his eyes, if not finer, are more kindly than Satan's. He works all day and reads all night in law and literature. His garden abuts upon a golf course; but on Saturday (summer) afternoons he weeds, unperturbed by the passing of derisive foursomes...
Died. Charles D. Skirdin, adventurous prototype of Novelist Owen Wister's famed "Virginian", redoubtable orphan, daredevil U. S. soldier, able woodsman; at a hospital in Reading...
...fine showing made a fortnight ago by the William and Mary eleven has entitled the Virginian team to another invitation to the Stadium...
...sport. The items told about Jim Thorpe, the Indian. One described how, after having failed, miserably, to get into condition, he was dropped by the New York Club with which he had been playing professional football. The second stated that he had married for solace a West Virginian named Freeda Kirkpatrick, had started west for his honeymoon...
...Author. Events in the life of Willa Sibert Gather in no way reflect her steady growth from a college-girl reporter on the Pittsburgh Daily Leader to a deanship in American letters. Born of Virginian parents 49 years ago, she grew up in Nebraska, attending that state's university. From the Leader, she went to creative Writing, helped edit McClure's Magazine from 1906-12. She did not marry, but her literary offspring appeared at regular intervals, each more admirable than the last, until One of Ours took the 1922 Pulitzer Prize. In her quiet New York apartment...