Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dill, after teaching country school and reporting for Cleveland newspapers, went West. He reached the State of Washington in 1909, and 13 years later persuaded that commonwealth to send him, only 38 and a Democrat, to the mighty Senate...
...night of Dec. 12, 1926, two men rang the doorbell at the home of Joseph Adams, 300-pound mayor of West City, Ill. The mayor, incautious, unsuspecting, opened the door. His callers took hasty shots at the 300-pound target, ran for their machines, left Mayor Adams dying across his threshold. Now the State of Illinois holds Charles Birger, gunman, gangster, as accessory to the murder of Joe Adams...
...confused with Archbishop's House also at Westminster, residence of His Eminence Francis Cardinal Bourne, (Roman Catholic) Archbishop of West minster, (Roman Catholic) Primate of England...
...parochial bystander to name you a newspaper in Galveston, St. Louis, Butte, Jacksonville or either Portland. His face will go blank. Ask him to name you one in Omaha and out will buzz: "The Bee." One of the oldest newspapers west of the Mississippi, the Bee has stung itself into the U. S. folk-consciousness not only by its bumbling name but by appropriate industry. That its industry might reap greater rewards, it last week (in the person of Publisher Nelson B. Updike) bought out and absorbed its chief competitor, the Omaha Daily News, 28-year-old member...
...Eventually he reached his week's goal- Inventor Thomas Alva Edison's 80th birthday party at West Orange, N. J. Mr. Ford, genial, amiable, yelled newspapermen's questions into Mr. Edison's ear. Mr. Edison is quite deaf. Harvey S. Firestone, Akron rubberman, watched...