Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Edward West Nichols, retired superintendent to the Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Va., called "the West Point of the South" by General Pershing. General Nichols was a great inspiration to the cadets, each one carrying away his favorite lines...
Ships sail west...
...Eddie Foy started on his career as a professional entertainer, turning handsprings in Manhattan saloons and "passing the hat" for an outdoor fiddler. When French engineers ventured to dig the Panama Canal, Mr. Foy was shuffle-dancing and tumbling before miners in the mushroom towns of the Wild West. When Theodore Roosevelt called for Rough Riders, Eddie Foy was in bright lights, a symbol of spry clowning. By the time che Kaiser had started for Paris, "Eddie Foy and the Seven Little Foys" had be come a vaudeville institution. A few years after the Peace Con ference, the whole family...
...Professor Charles Austin Beard, historian, formerly of Columbia University, ridiculed President Coolidge's "wearing cowboy breeches and fishing with worms." He predicted an alliance between the South and West as defense against the Eastern capitalistic control of politics. He defended the McNary-Haugen Farm Relief Bill as "an experimental adventure...
...years later the Examiner became, as it remains, one of the great newspapers of the West. It had swelled prodigiously in size; its staff was irrepressible and brilliant; its headlines had shot up like weeds; its features and its murders swept up the population's pennies...