Word: worthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these engagements they were uniformly successful all along the line. I know that some twelve years ago my State of Illinois, after a hot campaign in which the opponents of the bonus were branded as being unpatriotic and slackers, voted them a State bonus, and $55,000,000 worth of bonds were sold in order...
...frantically rushing to completion a Second Trans-Siberian Railway north of Lake Baikal. Main fighting last week was near Lake Bor, which Japanese say is 18 miles inside the Manchu Empire and irate Mongols consider theirs. An ancient Buddhist temple with thick walls impressed commanders on both sides as worth fighting for-an ideal stronghold for the winner. As rifles crackled, the Japanese officers joyfully saw two bombing planes approaching, assumed them to be Japanese, the only kind ever seen in those parts. Instead, the thundering birds were Mongols with the Hammer & Sickle of Communism on their wings. They laid...
...permitted to take several months off, browse along his own path in Northern and European libraries. Setting up the thesis that the power to tax was the power to destroy, the Deutsch brief quoted the late great Justice Holmes's observation that "a page of history was worth a volume of logic," traced the sorry history of newspaper taxation. He began in 1644 with John Milton's Areopagitica-A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing, caught Queen Anne levying the first taxes against newspapers, discovered that the American Revolution "really began in 1765" when the first batch...
Founder Flagler lived only one year after his triumphal entry into Key West. The bulk of his fortune was left to his wife, Mary Lily Flagler, who was a seamstress in a Newport mansion when Mr. Flagler met her while visiting her employers. Later she married Robert Worth Bingham, now U. S. Ambassador to Great Britain. To him she left $5,000,000, but again the bulk of the Flagler fortune went undivided into a trusteed estate. In her will, Mrs. Mary Lily Flagler Bingham made one provision which has kept lawyers guessing ever since. For 21 years the residuary...
...Cline who be an anthropologist but a very pleasant fellow. And he told me mighty stories of bull-fighting in Malaga. I was quite amazed to learn nearly 1,300 bulls are killed this way in Spain every year--though very gracefully, I am told--and these be worth $20 to $30 a head. Also, it was new to me that the great Cid himself is by patriotic tradition the original bull fighter. I did not catch whether Dr. Cline himself did ever bull fight, though I know were he as capable a matador as he be a story teller...