Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...West Virginia nominated John W. Davis. The crowd was terribly weary, it stood and made a decent amount of noise for five minutes. Then Izetta Jewell Brown, who seconded Mr. Davis in 1920, seconded him again; moreover, she told the very same story as on the previous occasion, about God taking out man's brains and making woman (TIME, June 2). The story had been good before. It was good for a second time and for applause...
...fact that the South Africa Party, of which General Smuts is the leader, was defeated by a coalition of the Nationalists and Laborites, who will now have a majority of more than 20 in the new Parliament, occasioned little surprise. The personal defeat of the Premier at Pretoria West was also not unexpected. He is, however, to stand for reelection at Standerton in the Transvaal, that seat having been offered by a Colonel G. M. Claassen who is to resign...
...chanced to step on the soil of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and gaze upon Washington University's eight had any doubt about their winning the 37th annual Poughkeepsie Regatta on the Hudson River. These lads from the West averaged six feet two inches in height and when they pulled their oars the thin sliver of a boat sped through the water with the proverbial speed of greased lightning...
Victory, decisive and well-earned, was Washington's, but the moral victory certainly belonged to Wisconsin, a green, untried crew, whose boat had not come out on the Hudson since 1914. It was a great victory for the West and a great defeat for the East, which could hardly have been more surprised at seeing green snow than it was at Wisconsin's feat...
...volume is announced for September publication by Harcourt Brace & Co., who brought out Papini's Life of Christ. The collection is open to all creeds and all varieties thereof. Readers of TIME who desire to nominate sermons should address Dr. New ton at 76th Street and Central Park West, Manhattan...