Word: agents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...souls. For 50 years Gypsy Smith has opposed the snow-white pulpits and the gaudy theatrical devices of such sensationalists as Rev. William A. Sunday and Rev. Aimee Semple McPherson. "I am alone," he once said. "It is just Jesus and I. I have no singer, no press agent, no personal worker and no chorus leader. . . . Jesus Christ was the greatest gentleman the world ever knew, and He was an evangelist." Nevertheless, the press last week did not neglect to report that Gypsy Smith, "the father of all evangel ists," was on the way from Co lumbia, Ga., to Chicago...
...times of influenza epidemics. But influenza usually attacks every member of the family, while encephalitis lethargica rarely bothers more than one, even in epidemics. There is no definitely proved relation between the two diseases. Nor is there positive relation between encephalitis lethargica and infantile paralysis, although the infectious agent seems to be the same in both diseases. In fact, doctors do not know the cause. They think infection is spread by secretions from the nose and mouth. Because they are so ignorant in this case, they do not know sure ways of prevention. However, doctors do know this: most people...
Senator Frank L. Greene of Vermont: "As I was walking with my wife on Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, on Feb. 15, 1924, a Prohibition agent shot me in the forehead. He was aiming at a fleeing bootlegger. For weeks I lay in bed, half-dead, half-alive. Finally I recovered, except for a partial paralysis which makes me limp. At the time of my accident, on motion of the late Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Congress voted me $7,500 for medical expenses. Last week it became known that I had returned the $7,500 to the Government. Said...
...sinister Spaniard, menacing, evil-minded. . . Another Spaniard in a rowboat, a lighted cigaret waved three times in the night blackness. . . Someone throws a switch and the Maine is blown up. Thus the film records the outbreak of the Spanish-American war. Paramount discovered one Frank Hopper, book-agent, who looks like Theodore Roosevelt. He is shown ordering the mobilization of the fleet during the absence of his superior, Secretary of the Navy Long...
...amount of it. A subscription blank is sent annually to every alumnus of the University, and the individual has absolute freedom of decision whether to subscribe or not, and how much. These blanks have been sent out to all members of the class of 1927, by Lawrence Coolidge, Class Agent...