Word: york
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...back in years as 1888 or '89 I, then a teacher in a public school in a small New York town (Bernhard's Bay) near my home town, became interested in this subject, and when my school of two rooms was polled it was learned that the children, to a soul, voted for the columbine. Since then at different times, I have endeavored to interest people in this subject of the columbine as a national flower; and just happening to read the May Nature magazine, I discovered that the subject of a national flower is being brought forward...
...LEIGH STEVENSON New York...
...Cruiser. With a great splash the U. S. S. Chester, flagship of the "treaty cruiser" fleet, took the water from the ways of the New York Shipbuilding Co. at South Camden, N. J. Third to be launched of the eight 10,000-ton cruisers authorized in 1924 (the first two: Salt Lake City, Pensacola), the Chester set a record for laying-launching time-one year, 59 days. Scheduled for completion by June 1, 1930, she typifies the long-range U. S. fighting craft which is most objectionable to Great Britain...
...columns are very free with their signatures. Some make free with great names, sign themselves "Napoleon," "George Washington," "Calvin Coolidge." Others make free to be funny and call themselves names like Oscar Zilch, Wilton F. Cassowary, Ivan Offalitch. Conductor Harry Irving Phillips of the "Sun Dial" in the New York Evening Sun, did not think one way or another about the signature attached to some contributed verses he printed in early April, entitled "To a wife about to start on a shopping tour." The last stanza read: So when you dare declare to me You will...
Writer-critic Arthur Burton Rascoe is 36. Eight years ago he was literary and dramatic editor of the Chicago Tribune, "World's Greatest Newspaper." Since then other Rascoe jobs have been: associate editor of McCall's, literary editor of the New York Tribune (now Herald Tribune}. editor of Johnson Features, Inc., literary-critic of Arts & Decorations, editor of The Bookman. Last week the latest Rascoe position was announced-associate editor of Plain Talk, red-covered monthly (circulation 25,700) edited by Geoffrey Dell ("G. D.") Eaton in somewhat the manner of Henry Louis Mencken's kraut...