Word: yes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President-elect Hoover selects Dr. Wilbur as Secretary of the Interior, he will bring to that Department a man of broad experience and tremendous capacity for constructive work. No one knows better than Mr. Hoover that he could not make a "yes-man" out of Dr. Wilbur, which would be the last thing Mr. Hoover would want...
...with a stuffy head, running nose and red eyes took a woe-begone seat in Dr. Grafton Tyler Brown's consultation room, in Washington. Dr. Brown eyed the patient diagnostically and stated: "You have hayfever." The stuffy head snufflingly: "Yes!!" Dr. Brown scraped the man's skin and tested it with every protein he suspected might have caused the hayfever. One protein reacted positively. Stated Dr. Brown: "You have a parrot in your home." Patient snuffled: "Yes." Dr. Brown: "Get rid of the parrot." The patient did so and never after had stuffy head, running nose, red eyes...
...difficult to shoot a hole in the accuracy of the statement made by Mr. H. B. ('Yes, Mr. Swope, Sir') Swope, who has leaped at a bound from journalism to cigaret indorsing. 'Whenever I am tempted to eat between meals,' his signed statement reads, 'I light up a Lucky.' Little did the American Tobacco Company know that in Mr. Swope's life there is no such time as between meals. Elementary, he doesn't have any meals. The former - and his bellowing of 'Tear up the contract!' therefore now makes...
...sister expect to eat little birds. Little birds least of all. All the capitals that begin with A. Aix Aries and Avignon. Those that begin with be Beaux. That makes four. These that begin with B. Barcelona. Those that begin with M. Marseilles and Mallorca. You mean Palma. Yes P. Palma da Mallorca. . First Capital: Egypt. Second Capital: Rabbit. Third Capital: Fingering. Fourth Capital: Ardently silk. Fourth Capital: Spontaneously married. Third Capital: Camel's hair. Second Capital: Eider Down. First Capital: Chenille...
...painting of a buxom brunette called La Belle Ferronière was still displayed, last week, in a Manhattan courtroom. Was it the work of Leonardo da Vinci? To this question Georges Sortais, French connoisseur, had answered YES, and the owner of the painting, Mrs. Harry J. Hahn of Kansas City, had believed him. But Sir Joseph Duveen, potent millionaire art dealer, had murmured NO, thus preventing the sale of the painting to the Kansas City art museum. Therefore Mrs. Hahn had sued Sir Joseph for $500,000 (TIME, Feb. 18). The trial involved comparisons with the famed and very...