Word: al
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rasda had shot himself. He was lying on the dishevelled bed, a sticky gutter of blood marked from his temple down to the collar of his uniform. The Significance. Author Schnitzler's books are sudden, delicate, glittering and sharp. Daybreak is like the music of incredibly swift and al, most inaudible violins, swinging and sighing through the measures of a bitter improvisation. The excitement of the cardgame, the quick, inexplicable chances of love and despair rise and fall; tbev are flashes of an ironic dangerous lightning, never followed! by the slow, loud rhetoric of thunder.' As in Fraulein...
...Coolidge intention was clear enough. In the four months since the President first shut his door it had been pried wide again. Now he had shut it again. He chose not to lock it. He chose not to anticipate contingencies or to answer his own question: "Who could beat Al Smith if I didn...
Chicago newsgatherers hurried out one day last week to interview Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone, gunman. They found him arrayed in hunting clothes at his hotel. Mr. Capone had not been hunting humans, though that is his reputation. He had just returned from a pleasure trip in the "north woods" where he had been shooting bears, deer, rabbits. He was holding a press reception to announce that he was going South for the winter. The Capone interview commanded large headlines. Mr. Capone's fame rests upon the fact that whenever- as so often happens-a Chicago thoroughfare is raked & riddled...
...Hello Al." Griffo called everybody Al. Usually they stopped and gave him something. Griffo was grateful; he never begged. Even newsboys gave him papers which he perused gravely. Griffo could not" read, but he liked the pictures. He could not even read the tattered bunch of clippings he kept back in the basement room. Someone had taught him to recognize his name in print...
...clock today in New Lecture Hall, it was announced last night by E. M. Howe 1L, debating team coach. Any man in the College or Engineering School is eligible for the team. Every candidate will be expected to prepare a five minute speech on the subject: "Resolved, That Al Smith is eminently qualified for the presidency." The following men have been retained: A. L. Roffa, ocC. J. W. P. Lorenzen '28, D. E. Scoll '28, F. M. Shea '29, Norman Winer '29, Saul Rosenweig '29, M. V. Anastos '30, M. U. Copeland '29, and R. F. Courtney...