Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus, with the frank grin of a degenerate, did the most abnormal sheet in U. S. journalism, Publisher Bernarr ("BodyLove") Macfadden's New York Evening Graphic, last week embrace the divorce hearings of a pawky lecher and his fleshy girl-wife. There are thousands of Edward West Brownings in the U. S., but never before had one sprawled forth whose pathological condition included lust for publicity. The pornoGraphic, closely followed by its loose-lipped fellow-tabloids, the Hearst Mirror and the Patterson-McCormick Daily News, and abetted by an accommodating judge, proceeded with an exploitation to which previous obscenities...
...dinky, little, 512-mile Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad that connects West Virginia coal fields with Lake Erie ports caused a petty flurry on the New York Stock Exchange last week. Someone wanted a few shares. Others thought they knew why. They knew that Leonor Fresnel Loree had mentioned the road as a connecting link of his proposed fifth eastern trunk system. They knew that Chairman Frank E. Taplin of the Pittsburgh & West Virginia also had mentioned a feasible hook-up of his road with the Wheeling & Lake Erie and the Western Maryland to form a Great Lakes-Atlantic Coast chain...
...hours. . . . In the garden of a Nassau hotel there used to be the jaws of a hammerhead shark, with a placard: "Abandon hope all ye who enter here." A more appropriate exhibit would have been the jaws of a large barracuda (sphyraena barracuda), sharp-fanged "tiger fish" of West Indian waters. Long, silvery, black-barred, barracudas haunt the shallows boldly by day, are far more ferocious and aggressive than sand sharks...
Died. Brigadier General John McCausland, 90, Confederate army officer who never surrendered; in a deep sleep at Point Pleasant, West Va. He was blamed for the burning of Chambersburg and wandered as an exile for two years, following the Civil War. Part of this time he saw military service in Mexico under Maximilian. General Grant intervened in 1867, quashed the stigma attached...
...stories and a textbook. P. A. L., his first novel, was the robustious biography of a U. S. promoter and wildcat bunco artist, "P. A. L. Tangerman." Last autumn he published Vignettes of the Sea, much like William McFee's off-duty ruminations. The polyglot relations in East Side, West Side reflect his own. A deep-chested, straw-haired German, he married, in 1912, Maud Conroy of Queenstown, Ireland...