Word: worldness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...General Anton von Galgotzy, of the Imperial Army of Austria-Hungary, deceased, was a character, perhaps the most original, outspoken, best loved officer ever to wear the gold collar of a General of Division. In an army proud of its title of "the best dressed army in the world" he once telegraphed a firm of Viennese ready-made tailors...
Juma is the Turkish sabbath. Because it falls on Friday, Turkish business houses with international connections and the government itself are out of step with the rest of the world three days a week...
Sued for Divorce. Nelson Morris, grandson & namesake of the founder of Morris & Co. (Chicago meatpackers), by Jeanne Aubert Morris, French legitimactress; at Versailles. Grounds: desertion. Since he flew around the world on the Graf Zeppelin he has not gone back to his wife...
...male; at London. Age: 2. Having recently received a picture of Baby Pankhurst, George Bernard Shaw wrote Miss Pankhurst: ''The boy looks a jolly little animal and is still, I hope, trailing clouds of glory." Birthday. Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill, British politician, Conservative Party leader, author (The World Crisis); at London. Age: 55. Died. Lucy Abercrombie, 29, daughter of Col. David T. Abercrombie (David T. Abercrombie Co., camp outfitters, Manhattan); at Ossining, N. Y.; of burns. She was working in her laboratory with a leakproof solution of gasoline and paraffin when a spark exploded it. Died. Sadao Saburi...
...sadly overworked in business biography, but they apply here. A broad and high forehead and a reflective cast of countenance give Irving T. Bush more the aspect of a philosopher than a successful businessman. After a preparatory school education at Hill School, Pottstown, Pa., and a cruise round the world on his father's yacht, the Coronet, young Bush began to dream of his great terminal scheme. In 1902 he founded Bush Terminal, Inc., and began to build six small warehouses and a pier. When the big railroads ignored his tiny terminal, he called it to their attention by buying...