Word: steeling
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...given the campus in memory of their warrior son.. Mrs. Montgomery Ward had given a medical-dental centre, a 14-story Gothic building, in memory of her merchant (mailorder) husband. The widow of Levy Mayer, famed attorney, had given a hall of law. Judge Elbert H. (U. S. Steel) Gary of Manhattan had given a law library. W. A. Wieboldt had given a hall of commerce...
...great steel pier at Atlantic City the General Federation of Women's Clubs last week held its 18th biennial convention. The Federation heard William Green, President of the A. F. of L. (against child labor), Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania (for prohibition), Minnie Maddern Fiske (against the use of furs of animals* caught in cruel steel traps) and many another worthy man and woman. The Federation also passed resolutions for the beautification of highways, for a federal child labor amendment, for support of the 18th Amendment and Volstead Act.† In addition it decided to found a permanent "legislative bureau...
...four years owned that agency and was making $1,000 weekly, writing "messages" and bringing in new accounts; who at 41 was a multi-millionaire and, having got into politics through the good offices of Will H. Hays and Bernard M. Baruch, was entrusted with 1,442 steel Government ships as chairman of the U. S. Shipping Board. Every thing he laid his hands on (except those ships) turned into money. He has a dynamo of a mind and bovine physical endurance to turn loose upon anything- from a luke warm bean factory to an all-night bridge game...
Nations have a peculiarly touchy psychology, a disposition to snap at slender affronts to dignity. With truculence, commonly considered a component of prestige, diplomats indulge in politely phrased wars of words. Were it not for the glint of steel in each polished sentence, these verbal disputes would have an element of petulant humor...
...somewhat damped by a spring shower, looked on and listened. The Republican Glee Club of Columbus, Ohio, the boys' band of the Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home gave musical selections. Representatives of many fraternal lodges to which the late President belonged deposited emblems of their orders in the steel casket set in the cement foundation. Then Mr. Dawes, with the very trowel which the Mason-President last used?at Ketchikan, Alaska, in laying the cornerstone of a masonic lodge?placed the marble slab in place...