Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Neely, who hides his Christian names (Mathew Mansfield) by the initials "M. M.," is Senator from the State of West Virginia, a state which breeds an eloquence as odorous as the honey of the Hybla* bees. What is more, he is a Democrat and nothing loathe to attack in the Senate the Republican President who vetoed (TIME, May 12) the Bursum pension bill: "I arise to charge the President of the United States with having become a lobbyist. As such, his activities are being carried on at the breakfast table of the White House, where his power ful and penetrating...
...occasion, with its great variety of accents was momentous, if a trifle prolix. Not only that the foreign writers were present; but that I have never seen so representative a group of Americans assembled. From England, were May Sinclair, Rebecca West, Mrs. Dawson-Scott. From America, were Carl Van Doren, President of the American Centre; Robert Frost, poet and winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize; Alexander Black, Mary Austin, Gertrude Atherton, novelists; Edwin Arlington Robinson, poet. Below, at smaller tables, were countless others?playwrights such as Owen Davis and Zoe Akins; novelists such as Fannie Hurst and Harvey Fergusson...
...latest advantage has been won by the Astors, who have just succeeded in changing the status of the west side of Madison Ave. between 35th and 38th Streets from "residential" to "business." Thus Mr. Morgan may some day behold from his windows a series of lofty office buildings rising across the street. But this will probably not happen until considerable litigation has taken place...
...Winner. Black Gold, so-called Pride of the West, won by a scant half-length. The three horses who were given the other prize-money places were also Western horses. Thus the East found itself totally eclipsed. The time of the mile and a quarter race (2 min. 5 1/5 sec.) was 1 4/5 seconds slower than the record made in 1914 by Old Rosebud. The track was fast; the day, fair...
...those who have even barely begun the study of American history the value of Professor Turner's contribution to American scholarship needs no comment. "The Rise of the New West" focussed attention on a dominant factor in the development of the United States which had theretofore been largely neglected by historians. A grasping of the full significance of the frontier in American history, its far-reaching economic effects, its faculty of molding national character, its persistent influence in politics, is an achievement of which any scholar may justly feel proud...