Word: adams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...food situation became so acute that Commander-in-Chief Walter Waters flew to New York to beg supplies. There Adam Hat Stores, Inc. donated 90 tons of food, of which 1,500 Ib. of beef was rushed to Washington by plane. In Commander Waters' absence, Communist John Pace, leader of the Workers' Ex-Service Men's League, arose to attack his dictatorship. A thousand conservative Veterans began closing in on the noisy little Red. Suddenly out of nowhere appeared General Glassford. "Pace has just as much right to speak here as anyone," he shouted...
...philosophers, improved by artists, lived by the saints. To discover about the True, discover Truth's elation, it is necessary for a man to read philosophy, more necessary for him to think philosophically. To accomplish this feat the Abbe suggests that a man try to put himself in Adam's bare feet, look at the world with newborn eyes, try to answer the whys and hows his mind will naturally ask. That is philosophy. Its reward is less in getting questions answered than in a man's growing ability to ask higher and deeper questions. The Abbe...
Professor Edward Adam Strecker (neuropsychiatry) of Jefferson Medical College and Dr. Edward D. Hoedemaker examine the attempted suicides taken to Philadelphia General Hospital. They find that many patients were clear-minded and philosophical in their efforts to end life. George Eastman was an example of an indubitably level-headed suicide. Long-standing poverty is seldom a cause. When a very poor person kills himself, vice, crime or love are involved...
...spat on, and crucified against a door. The Author. Authoress Radclyffe Hall's maiden poetic effort was dictated at the age of three. By 1915 she had published five volumes of verse. Novel-writing, suggested by Publisher William Heinemann, followed: The Unlit Lamp, The Forge, A Saturday Life, Adam's Breed, The Well of Loneliness. The last, sympathetically telling the story of a girl born sexually inverted, created a stir because of its literary merits, a scandal because of its theme. The scandal was not lessened by the fact that Authoress Hall wears mannish shirts and ties...
...Golden Gloves Amateur boxing carnival; by defeating the Chicago Tribune A. A. in twelve out of 16 bouts in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. A crowd of 20,000 cheered two knockouts, booed lustily when Jerry Wright, New York Negro, was given a decision over Chicago's Adam Smith in the heavyweight feature bout of the tournament...