Word: al
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most of your readers would sooner bet on a horse race than watch a fat lot of old ladies "bowl on the green." Oh, Percival! Oh, Clarence! When TIME left out such things it was laying down, just like they all do sooner or later. MORRIS ("AL") EPSTEIN...
...defends the U. S. delay in entering the War by picturing U. S. polyglot population as a sturdy band of folk collectively dismayed and none too impressed by the quarrels of their stay-behind cousins back in Europe. He soothes Revolutionary rancor by embracing Washington, Franklin, Hancock, et al., as Englishmen and even appeals to the Empire spirit of Britons by revealing a bevy of immigrant children singing "My Country "Tis of Thee" to the same tune as "God Save the King." He reminds England that President Wilson said "too proud to fight" to Mexico, not Europe, and that...
They all lay down sooner or later! MORRIS ("AL") EPSTEIN...
...newly elected grand chief engineer is Alvanley ("Al") Johnston, 52, Canadian-born, quiet-mannered, efficient. For 32 years he was an engineer on the Great Northern, now carries a free pass on that road as a "Veteran Engineer...
...Harvard's runners and jumpers were last week far ahead of an Oxford-Cambridge combination-until the day of the meet at Stamford Bridge, England. The worsted was stretched at the finish line of a 100-yard dash and the U. S. men continued in the lead as Al ("Truck") Miller, 200-lb. Harvard sprinter, charged in ahead of Bayes Norton, onetime Yale man now at Oxford. But other worsteds, stretched for races of 220, 440 and 880 yards, were soon broken by Runkel of Cambridge and Brown of Oxford, Runkel winning the 220 and 440 events in quick...