Word: chase
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Outside Congress: he lives at No. 1661 Crescent Place, N. W. (Washington), has a summer home in Glacier National Park. When in Washington he is a popular dinner-guest, golf part ner. His clubs: the Montana at Helena, the Silver Bow at Butte, the Chevy Chase at Washington...
...yachts strung with pennants, crowded with people in summer clothes, stood in silence as the boats swept past the half-mile flags. Yale had almost a one-length lead here and was rowing more easily than Harvard. Now and then the Harvard shell swerved a little in its chase as though one side were pulling harder than the other; now and then a Harvard man looked quickly over his shoulder. Two lengths showed between the boats at a mile and one-half. An unwritten rule of boat-racing prescribes that yachts shall not blow their horns until the finish...
Outside Congress: In Washington he rents a comfortable old-fashioned house at 1822 19th Street, K.W. He avoids most social functions, plays golf with such House cronies as New York's Parker, Massachusetts' Treadway at fashionable Chevy Chase Club. Sprightly, he drives his own car, a black Buick coupe, also maintains a Cadillac, a Negro chauffeur. From his luxurious Stamford residence, he golfs at the Wee Burn, Suburban, or Woodway country clubs, takes much interest in the town's Ferguson Library, the Children's Home. He likes the theatre and concerts...
Protests against the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Bill banked higher at the White House last week. Requests for a veto continued to flow in. Henry Ford stayed overnight with President Hoover to repeat his belief that the bill was "an economic stupidity." Albert Henry Wiggin, head of the Chase National Bank of New York, conferred long and solemnly at and after luncheon. Many another tycoon flayed the measure in public or prepared to protest when (or if) the bill should come formally before the President...
...sparrowhawk started to chase a carrier pigeon across the Atlantic last week. When 500 miles out they met the Cunarder Caronia, both were contented to alight, to be put in a single cage where they completed their crossing in avian amiability...