Word: adds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ardent Prohibitionist, found it expedient to move. At the request of the townspeople of Bell Buckle, who built him a schoolhouse as an inducement to come, he moved the school there in 1888. In moving, the schoolbody came in spring wagons holding classes on the way. I might add that when Woodrow Wilson was President of Princeton, it was of Webb School that he said: "They defy all the accepted laws of pedagogy, but their boys are the best prepared that we get." Webb School is still carrying the banner of fundamental education high under the leadership of "Son Will...
...brother-in-law. Barrett was crippled in the knees by a volley of slugs fired by the Government agents in the West College Corner affray. Ordering the prisoner to be hanged at the Marion County Jail next March, U. S. District Judge Robert C. Baltzell concluded: "May I add personally that I hope and pray that God will be merciful unto...
...assistant Edward Ziegler: "These two men can run an opera house if they are allowed to. This assertion is made because it is not impossible that there may be too many cooks stirring the broth. If the numerous people who are active in Metropolitan affairs will not undertake to add artistic direction to their other manifold duties the institution will probably thrive and the treasury grow...
Back to Europe went Mary Heaton Vorse, just after the Armistice, on the last convoyed ship to leave Manhattan. England's Black Country, faced with "the great calamity of peace"; Paris of the Peace Conference; Italy, with new ruins to add to its old; the meeting of the Second International at Berne; devastated Serbia, machine-gun fire in starving Vienna, Budapest under Bela Kun's Communist regime-all these she saw and reported. The one meeting she refused was an interview with Queen Marie of Rumania. Once more in the U. S., her active indignation sent her into...
...President Lebrun was kind enough to grant an audience to the visitors and chat with them for a while. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs planned the available time to the best advantage and other organizations, such as the Touring Club of France and the Automobile Club, co-operated to add to the enjoyment of the visit...