Word: welled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Toronto-I sent you ten days ago news note regarding marriage of my son Louis Severance Higgins to Miss Hawley of Toronto, Oct. 9. I thought you might cover in your issue 16 or 23 Sept. We are subscribers to TIME at the Plaza Hotel. Toronto family are as well. I appreciate you cannot do this for all, but I thought in this instance you would as his name connects up a prominent family-Severance-a family that helped make Cleveland...
...writing of the American Weekly, published by Wm. Randolph Hearst. Or in the other words, as that American Weekly is commonly known among the people as a "scandal sheet." What you are trying to make out of it is a comedy, not an innocent comedy, but a comedy well aimed and with a purpose. And yet, in spite of those facts. I do not and cannot believe that you as an American newspaper man would cultivate in his heart such a purpose...
...Heard Rear-Admiral Hugh Rodman, U. S. N. retired, say: "There is little or no use in having an inferior navy. You might just as well expect a lame mule to win the Kentucky Derby...
...fairway, kicked sharply to one side, stopped square at the foot of a dead tree. If Collett could have blown the tree away she would have had as good a chance as Higbie of getting her next shot on the green. She chipped out, rolled her third well up and laid her fourth dead. Flustered, Mrs. Higbie flubbed her chip-shot and on the next hole, climbing out of a bunker from which her ball had not climbed, she ran her fingers through her hair, pressed her wrists against her temples and with a sigh said softly, "Oh, dear...
...backslapping, to the indulgence of strange whims that usually turn out to be investments, and fond of uttering pungent aphorisms on salesmanship, of gravely handing new acquaintances packages of his gum, a supply of which he carries around with him at all times, William Wrigley Jr. is at 68 well-equipped to enjoy his amazing prosperity. In the conventional fashion of rich men who believe it is time for them to have some fun, he has become Chairman of the Board of directors of his company and made his son Philip K., president...