Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Corp., John T. Underwood (typewriters) and onetime Vice President Raymond B. Small of the Postum Cereal Co. It has given every evidence of being a proverbial El Dorado to its investors. Major General Davis, soon-to-be Photomaton president, was born in Lancaster, Pa., Oct. 12, 1876, graduated from West Point in 1898, was a first lieutenant during the Spanish-American War. During the World War he was Adjutant General of the A. E. F. In April, 1922, he was made Acting Adjutant General of the U. S. Army and took charge of the planning and administering of the Adjusted...
...some several years now, specifically since the arrival at New Haven of the rowing Messiah from the West, the cry of springtime in Cambridge has been, "This is the Year". In these same half dozen years Harvard crews have rowed as all crews row,--whole-heartedly, even valiantly. Some have been beaten badly, others have been kept with difficulty in the wake of Eli craft, but each year the result has been much the same and the early war cry has changed to the mournful notes of "Next Year". Thus it is with considerable trepidation that we utter the words...
...latest answer to the time honored query, "What's in a name?" comes from the Middle West and informs us that as much as $100,000 dollars a year can be drawn from nothing more than a happy combination of letters. "Red" Grange, former sensation of mid-Western gridirons and the despair of ambitious backfield men, has found an unrivalled formula for living in opulence with an expenditure of nothing, in the way of effort, a year. Tired of supplying neighboring ice boxes with their heavy fuel, weary of dashing up and down mud covered gridirons, even, it seems, fatigued...
...painter. This evolution resulted from an accident that occurred 20 years ago. Then Mr. Lawrence illustrated for Harper's Weekly. His wife took sick, so he was forced to concentrate upon illustration almost to the exclusion of his first love, water color. His sketches demanded travel-Europe, the West Indies, South America. It was on a South American tour that the sun beat him into partial paralysis. His right hand hung disabled...
...before one could say jack rabbit or Lindbergh or drink a malted milk, we had taken the subway for a ride and were at the Wild West Show. "Do you suppose--do you suppose they'll have, real Indians?" My roommate is one of those cynical fellows. I said that there were more live Indians to be had since the others were dead or something equally significant. Which should have closed his mouth to further gaucherie...