Word: frankness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days later the delegation assembled aboard the S. S. George Washington at her pier in Hoboken. Delegate Charles Francis Adams, last to leave Washington, traveled to Jersey City in a special train, filled with advisers, clerks, stenographers, correspondents and servants. There Democratic Mayor Frank Hague drew up a reception committee to greet him at the station. But Delegate Adams hurried so fast to catch his boat that the committee never saw him. Aboard the George Washington he found himself assigned to the same suite that President Woodrow Wilson had occupied eleven years ago when he sailed for the Paris Peace...
Prime mover in National Cornstalks Processes, Inc.. was onetime Governor Frank Orren Lowden of Illinois. Last week, he became a stockholder, helped subscribe $500.000. Among other stock-holders : New York's Bernard Mannes Baruch, Chicago's Joseph Edward Otis, In-national Harvester's Herbert F. Perkins...
More versatile than they was their father, the late James Steele MacKaye (1842-94), painter, actor, playwright, producer, lecturer on esthetic philosophy, inventor. His Hazel Kirke (1879) ran longer than any U. S. play until Frank Bacon's Lightnin' (1918). He organized the first U. S. school of expression, originated "harmonic gymnastics," first used over-head lighting in theatres, invented folding theatre chairs...
Differing Twins. One's ability and personality are not absolutely fixed by birth, but may be influenced by home, school and community, decided Chicago's Frank Nugent Freeman, after noting how twins resembled each other in height, weight, general shape and size, fingerprints, but differed in general mental ability, and still more in temperament and special skills...
...earn his living, he joined a gymnasium. Soon his muscles began to bulge. He became an adept gymnast, an expert Greco-Roman wrestler. He entered the lightweight national tournament, won it; challenged Chicago's welterweight champion, flattened him in four minutes; challenged Chicago's Heavyweight Champion Frank Whitmore, downed him in 91 minutes. After unsuccessful tries as acrobat and laundryman, Macfadden announced himself as a "kinistherapist, teacher of higher physical culture." He wrote a novel, The Athlete's Conquest, was shocked to learn that it was "poorly expressed, crude and ungrammatical." (He afterwards published it, revised...