Word: whims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Perhaps Colonel Green does have strange whims?most wealthy men with scientific inclinations are considered "queer" by their neIghbors. But, more likely, Colonel Green's newest whim will make him a patron of U. S. aviation as famed as Rodman Wanamaker, Raymond Orteig, Daniel Guggenheim, Henry & Edsel Ford...
...spats he was reviled, hooted and mercilessly cartooned. Only his six feet of strapping manhood, a resolute independence, and the light of command in his steady eyes have enabled him to carry off this idiosyncrasy in triumph through the years. Last week he prepared to carry off a new whim which seemed to some Australians more foolhardy even than spats...
None the less, Manufacturer Henry H. Timken has been willing to spend a million dollars to give a full test to the doctor's theories. This is no whim of Mr. Timken who is well known in Canton for his secret philanthropies, especially for supplying medical aid to indigents...
STARTLING in the wrong direction necessitates an immediate right about face or a long journey and a difficult one across sterile fields. Ellis Parker Butler wrote "Pigs Is Pigs", a concession to a tasteless whim, and has continued along that road of supposed humor ever since...
...Helene of Greece and Rumania suddenly returned to Bucharest last week from Rapallo, Italian Riviera (TIME, Feb. 7), although she had announced her intention of remaining there the rest of the winter with her infant son, Crown Prince Mihai. Reputedly King Ferdinand, wracked by illness, had suddenly indulged the whim of an invalid and recalled the Princess. The King's brother, Prince Wilhelm von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, also was to arrive last week at Bucharest...