Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...high cards in this year's Scandals are numerous. There is Ann Pennington, whose knees are impudence itself; Harry Richman, night club interlocutor; Eugene and Willie Howard, Jewish comedians; Buster West, comic; McCarthy Sisters and Fairbanks Twins, who dance, sing; Tom Patricola, frantic dancer; Frances Williams, whose Charleston is notable; and Fowler and Tamara, brilliant ballroom artists...
...Charles Smith of Manhattan, president of an Association for the Advancement of Atheism, found his way into public prints last week. Experiments were to be conducted, he said, at the Pasteur Institute of Kindia, French West Africa, to "support" Evolution by breeding apes with humans. Soviet Russia had contributed $10,000. A total of $100,000 was needed over a period of years. Eminent Professor Elie Ivanoff of Moscow had already departed for Africa to make preparations...
...belong to clubs in Boston, Detroit, Manhattan, Chicago). The corporations are: 1) the North American Light and Power Co. of Studebaker (value $200,000,000), 2) The North American Co. in which Studebaker and Senator McKinley of Illinois are jointly interested (value $525,000,000), 3) The Middle West Utilities Corp. of Samuel Insull (value $425,000,000). Their aggregate earnings last year were almost...
...effect the merger the North American Light & Power Corp. will be refinanced and then owned jointly by the North American Co. and the Middle West Utilities Corp. But Mr. Studebaker has taken care to retain his individual stockholdings in the light and power company and to remain as its directing head...
Sixteen huge thighs kicked as one, sixteen monumental wrists snapped down, eight long oars feathered the water of Lake Carnegie and dug in deep for another stroke. The crew of the University of Washington was rowing against Princeton. They had arrived from the West Coast a week before to perfect their technic and between spells of rowing their large shapes had been seen posing about the town in sweaters adorned with little oars-a crew of giants. Two of them were six feet five inches high; their average height was six feet three; even the coxswain...