Word: aids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fortnight ago, Dr. Straton, in his evening sermon used the word vice. His point: "However clean, personally, the Democratic candidate may be, and however innocent he may have been of any deliberate intention to give aid and comfort to the forces of vice, lawlessness, and drunkenness, nevertheless, because he is the type of politician he happens to be and because his sympathies and the judgments of his heart are with the liquor crowd and the hangers-on of the liquor crowd, the forces of prostitution and gambling have, for the sake of truth, to be included with them, therefore...
...tense grew religious and patriotic fervor, that Belgian papers reported the fainting of numerous grief-stricken British War-mothers, War-widows, and War-sisters, who were quickly revived in first aid stations provided for that purpose. Solemn and inspirational was the chanting of 0 Valiant Hearts Who to Your Glory Came! Finally, when soft, repressed sobbing had become general, the Primate of England cried, referring to the War: "Was it all worth while? Here at this gate let there be no faltering in the answer, 'Yes, a thousand times...
...little to rage about. They decided to fight this coming year for the right of a citizen to have the care of a licensed osteopath, if he wants one, when he becomes a patient in any hospital or other public welfare institution supported by taxes or receiving state aid. They elected as their next president Dr. D. L. Clark of Denver; to succeed Dr. George V. Webster of Carthage...
...Learned with ejaculations of surprise that rich, stern-hearted Viscount Inchcape of Strathnaver has at length decided to aid in a peculiar manner the penniless widow and son of one Captain Walter Hinchliffe, who was lost while attempting to fly the Atlantic with Lord Inchcape's daughter, the Hon. Elsie Mackay. Unwilling to aid Widow Hinchliffe directly, Viscount Inchcape placed ?10,000 ($48,700) at the disposal and "absolute discretion" of Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill, last week, with the request he administer it in such manner as to alleviate "any complaint by other sufferers from the disaster...
...estate where he is sojourning. They put on a dance which is really a fight for a camera crank, with Miss Pat kicking, biting, and wrapping her legs about the neck of Scoop Morgan. Later, the Maharajah discovers that he has been photographed; he swoons. A doctor offers to aid him, takes him to a tent, murders him, steals his precious emerald. And, all the while, Miss Pat, hidden in an adjoining tent, is recording every detail of the murder with her camera. How this scoop of scoops reached the office and what happened to Miss Pat are done...