Word: wintered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gernade Bowers is a short, slim, dark, studious, scholarly, quiet man in his middle years. His specialty is early U. S. history. Like many a bookish man he has his villain-Alexander Hamilton-and his heroes-Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson. He gained fame as an exciting speaker last winter when Democrats celebrated Jackson Day in Washington. His assignment as Keynoter at Houston put an entire political party and a huge radio audience at the vocal disposal of a man long confined to the indirect, often anonymous, medium of the scrivener. Mr. Bowers made it a point to have...
...William H. Stayton of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment; many a busybody, many a crank. Sebastian Spering Kresge, 5-and-10-cent man, was there, presumably to see that the Anti-Saloon League was mak-ing good use of some of the $500,000 he gave it last winter (TIME...
...average close to .400. Some sporting writers, fond of big words, spoke of him as a genius, others, with a leaning for biography, sketched his past, beginning with the summer of 1913. Rogers Hornsby was 17 that summer. He had been playing on the high school team in Winters, Tex. When he had been in Hugo, Tex., for a while, he played in a professional game for which he was paid $2.50. Then he played more for Hugo and was paid a little more and then he moved on to a town called Dennison. One afternoon a stranger...
...Latin-American governments, he issued a call, provided for at last winter's Pan-American Conference, for "plenipotentiary jurisconsults" to attend in Washington on December 10 a Pan-American war-condemning conference...
Hamilton Holt, president of Rollins College (Winter Park, Fla.) D. Humanities