Word: normans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Manhattan reporters went down to the imposing Cunard Building in lower Broadway last week to have a look at the elder and distinguished statesman brother of famed onetime Australian tennis champion Norman Brookes...
Brother Herbert Brookes is 62. He was recently appointed Australia's first Commissioner-General to the U. S. Up to now the office has been merely "Commissioner" and its incumbent a sort of glorified Australian commercial attache assisting the British Embassy in Washington. "Yes, I taught Norman to play tennis," twinkled the Commissioner-General. "But he has been responsible for himself for some time. I am really a businessman, you know." Thus modestly Big Brother Brookes alluded to the fact that he is profitably interested in Australian pulp and paper milling, makes a business of sheep raising in Queensland...
First of the shipbuilders summoned was Clinton Lloyd Bardo, president of New York Shipbuilding Co. (subsidiary of American Brown Boveri) ; next Norman R. Parker, secretary and treasurer of American Brown Boveri Co.; then Charles M. Schwab, chairman of Bethlehem Steel Corp.; then S. W. Wakeman, vice president of Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. No "tramps in purple and fine linen" are these, no "millionaires in rags...
This greatly annoyed Radio-Announcer Walter Brokenchild (Walter N. Greaza), a likeable, unctuous-voiced fellow, supposed to be a satire on real Radio-Announcer Norman Brokenshire of Manhattan's Station WABC. In competition with the police, he set out to apprehend the thieves. Next evening, during his dark seance, Dr. Workman was murdered. Announcer Brokenchild's efforts at detection were misinterpreted; he nearly went to jail as a colleague of the insidious "Ghost Gang...
Piobaireachd. Pipers had to play the warlike Cumha-Mhican-Toisich (Mackintosh's Lament). They were judged on their interpretation and feeling, technical facility and smart appearance. First prize: $75 and a gold medal for the best Piobaireachd piper in Canada. Winner: Norman McPherson of Hamilton...