Word: westerner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mean I am sure "cottage." There arc no huts in Scotland, sirs, unless in the extremely remote sections of the Western Highlands...
...Genro is a political institution without Western precedent. Possessing no constitutional authority but politically active until 1922, it then consisted of the four patriarchs who helped frame the Constitution of 1889?Marshal Prince Yamagata, Prince Saonji, Prince Matsukata, Marquis Okuma. No political move of any importance was made by the Emperor without consulting the Elder Statesmen. When their great age made traveling to the Palace difficult, Imperial messengers were sent to ask their advice. Prince Kimmochi Saonji, now 80 (he was born in the year of the California Gold Rush) is the last survivor. So great is his influence still...
Many a U. S. railroad last week reported on its first five months of 1929. Roads in general showed incomes considerably increased over the corresponding period in 1928. Largest increase in net operating income was enjoyed by Norfolk & Western, largest net operating income by Southern Pacific. One of the few roads reporting decrease in net operating income was Northern Net Pacific, Figures on large roads reporting were...
...themselves on the broad, current-ribbed Hudson for the biggest crew pageant of the year, the Intercollegiate. Before the start it seemed as if the winner would be either California, coached by bespectacled Carroll "Ky" Ebright, stroked by huge Pete Donlan and considered this year's greatest Western crew, or unbeaten Columbia, coached by Richard Glendon Jr., captained by Horace Davenport, considered this year's greatest Eastern crew. Cornell and the Navy were considered worth watching. Few thought there was much chance of a Wisconsin victory because, on account of late ice, Wisconsin did not start rowing this...
...time Schmeling was an art student. He was also a miner, a structural iron worker, a copyboy in the advertising department of a German newspaper. He wanted to be a sailor but his mother said nein. Since he has learned English he revels in Conrad, Jack London, Western stories. He solemnly avers that in German he reads Gerhart Hauptmann and, of course, Goethe, Schiller...