Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cody watched her shoot for a few minutes, engaged her for his Wild West show on the spot. He always called her "Missie" and there was no written contract between them. They toured Europe. She hunted deer with the Emperor of Austria; won a running-deer shoot from Grand Duke Michael of Russia for $350. At an exhibition in England, five ruling monarchs were present. A man who was to rule as Wilhelm II of Germany, expressed a desire to have the ash removed from his cigaret by a bullet. Annie Oakley obliged. Queen Victoria sent her a signed photograph...
...Leviathan is 59,960 tons; the U. S. S. West Virginia 32,600 tons...
Died. Jason Franklin Chase, 54, internationally famed Cerberus of public morals, 19 years Secretary of the New England Watch and Ward Society; in West Roxbury, Mass., of pneumonia and shock. His field of supervision included narcotics, prostitution, gambling, literature. His status was both private and official. Member of the Massachusetts Committee on Sex Publications, he was four times appointed by President Wilson delegate to the International Purity Federation...
...pleasant to be beaten continuously but it is a good thing for Harvard if it will awaken the undergraduate body to a realization of what is wrong there. Graduates who know the West realize that the stupid toryism which is putting New England on the toboggan industrially, for years with few and short intervals has had its dead hand on Harvard athletics. If intercollegiate sports are a good thing get the men who can teach you to win your share of contests. There is no virtue in any qualification other than the ability to win in a sportsmanlike manner...
...returns one immediately to a congenial subject. In yesterday's Boston Herald it was announced that the present histrionic treat at Waldron's Casino is "real burlesque of the old school". Now there may be those who do not know what "old school" burlesque is. They have never been west of Allentown, Pennsylvania, on the Lehigh. Nor have they tried that excellent establishment, the Howard Athenaeum. Of course the best friend after a visit to burlesque of the "old school" is an old clothes merchant, for where there's smoke there's sure to be smell--as the old proverb...