Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recently this same French Lick Springs and the neighboring town of West Baden were mentioned in Edna Ferber's new novel-Show Boat. A famed gambling house in the vicinity was likewise mentioned-was referred to as "Tom Taggart's place." It had been often similarly spoken of before and the whole question taken up before the courts which had completely acquitted Mr. Taggart. People marvelled at Miss Ferber's statement that she "desired above all to avoid further publicity," for the affair looked like a shrewd stunt to make Show Boat re-Ferberate through the land...
...horror of corruption."* Democrats from coast to coast perked their ears, pondered on that impressive 64-year-old figure of Senator Reed. They thought of the year 1928; remembered that William Gibbs McAdoo was a back number in presidential politics that Governor "Al" Smith was waning in the West...
...finally arriving at the conclusion that, of hundreds of other specimens studied, she was the finest young university woman Australia had produced in this generation. Thereupon they named her "Miss Australia" and awarded her an educational tour of the U. S. Last week she had crossed the continent from west to east. Manhattan newspaper reporters could think of but one thing to ask anyone called "Miss Australia": would she enter the current beauty contest at Atlantic City, where pursy bankers, showmen, hotel loungers and politicians sat in judgment upon the curves and proportions of "Miss Texas," "Miss Georgia," "Miss Idaho...
...Dewey. Peter etched and painted animals. Thomas stuck to illustrating, doing as high as 250 plates in a single year. Off and on he visited Europe, but in 1871 and 1873 he made the trips that made his name, to the bright-hued rock-gorge country of the Far West with government geologists. It was an ideal locale for a devoted student of Turner and of nature's iridescent color effects. Congress paid him $10,000 apiece for his companion canvases, "Chasm of the Colorado" and "Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone," which were hung in the Capitol...
...pony, crushed his skull beneath flying hoofs. Died. Prince Umberto Ruspoli, brother of the late Prince Enrico Ruspoli, scion of a most ancient and distinguished Roman house; at his estate near Genzano, attacked and shot through the heart by a thief. Died. Senator Bert M. Fernald, 68; at West Poland, Me., of heart disease. Died. Robert Stanley Weir, 69; in Memphremagog, Quebec. Died. Margaret Charlotte Smith Howard, 72, Baroness Strathcona, rich, only child of the first Lord Strathcona, widow of a prominent physician; at her Park Lane home in London. A peeress in her own right through special provision, Baroness...