Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shortly thereafter came scintillant Cecelia Gertrude Shere, waving dark locks, out of the West in quest of fame...
...alone, Capt. Patterson said. But he announced plans for a four or five weeks' joyhop over the blue Caribbean, when Lieut. Becker will be at his side. Floyd Gibbons, famed journalist, will be guest. From Cuba to Central America, South America and the close-linked West Indies, he planned to circle the famed buccaneer waters. Last week his new plane, the Liberty, was being tuned up at Mitchel Field, L. I. She is a three-ton yacht of the air, with luxurious cabin, two motors of 520 horsepower each, speed of 140 miles per hour. She cost...
...begin with, his name was not even the U. S. Grant of fame and fancy, but Hiram Ulysses Grant-the initials proudly etched in brass tacks on the trunk he was to take on his unwilling way to West Point. Suspecting that fellow cadets would guy him for initials H. U. G., he plucked out the tacks, signed himself reversely Ulysses Hiram. But the registrar had him down as Ulysses Simpson Grant (an absent-minded senator had assumed the mother's maiden name) and refused him admittance without authorization from Washington. Ulysses, characteristically impatient of government red tape, made...
Beyond that, he distinguished himself at West Point by slovenliness of person, mediocrity of scholarship, hatred of firearms, and a certain girlish squeamishness of profanity and rough jokes. His femininity was emphasized by a callow appearance-indeed, during leisure hours of the Mexican War, Grant took the part, in amateur theatricals, of Desdemona, no less...
...conventional small command in the Civil War. As it happened, he was drifting from farmer pillar to salesclerk post, miserably deficient in supporting his family, scorned by relatives and Illinois townsfolk, when the war started. Grant decided he must repay the government for his free, if meager, education at West Point. For months his desultory applications for a command were ignored, but when the need for better generalship grew desperate, a trick of chance politics brought him to the crucial command in Tennessee...