Word: went
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first permanent European settlement in the New World (incidentally it is and always has been a Capital-official residence of Spain's first Viceroy in the Americas). Francisco Pizarro was a young soldier of fortune among the early Spanish conquistadores, a contemporary of and under Columbus, who went out from Santo Domingo on his history making conquest of the Incas. WM. E. PULLIAM...
...soldiers paraded, when President-Elect Hoover arrived back in Washington after leaving the Utah at Hampton Roads. Herbert Hoover Jr. met Mr. Hoover at the harbor, and Dr. Work, Senator Shortridge of California and a few minor statesmen were at the station. The President-Elect, arriving in Washington, went to the White House and was closeted with the President for a half hour. When they emerged, the President and President-Elect posed for photographs, and Mr. Hoover was plied with newsmen's questions. He declined to answer queries. "You will have to go to the fountain of news," he said...
...newspaper work in Elmira. In 1906 he bought a half-interest in the Elmira Gazette, combining it with the Star. He fought shy of the larger cities for years as he expanded his holdings, buying up papers two at a time, consolidating them on firm financial bases. He went to Ithaca, to Rochester, to Utica; to Plainfield, N. J.; and back to New York with purchases in Newburgh, Olean and Ogdensburg...
Ever since 1920 Norman Anthony had been with Judge. He was not educated primarily to be a humorist. On the contrary he went to art school in his native Buffalo and later in New York, and learned to paint compositions of fish and bananas in new and thoughtful poses. His sense of humor could not be stifled, and in 1910, when he was 21 and very free, he eloped with a Buffalo girl. This prank turned out well. Mr. & Mrs. Anthony had two children and Mr. Anthony became a comedian in earnest. After ten years of free-lancing with cartoons...
...contemptuously with turn-of-the-century cartoonists that the only difference between an automobilist and a dum-fool was that the dumfool was prob'ly born that way and couldn't help it. Engineer Chrysler gave little thought to Oelwein's farmers and automobilists but he went to the Chicago automobile show of 1905* and stood entranced in front of a beauteous white thingamajig with four doors, a bulbous horn and red leather upholstery. It was the 1905 Locomobile. The salesman said it cost $5,000 cash. Mr. Chrysler had $700 in the bank at Oelwein...