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Word: alonzo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...perhaps be even more ludicrous to judge the Senate by the prayers it listens to than by the speeches delivered from its floor. As it is well known that the latter are often violent but hollow, so it has just been complained that the former, however devout, are puerile. Alonzo g. Anthony, a proofreader of Reading, Pennsylvania, writes in a letter to Senator Pepper, "The language used by Rev. J. J. Muir, Chaplain of the United States Senate, is like that of a third grade schoolboy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SENATE PRAYS | 1/19/1926 | See Source »

...Newton, Mass., last June, Mrs. Eunice J. Esten, 75, lay dying. By her side sat Alonzo H. Blood, 76, waiting, watching. In his pocket was a marriage license. If Mrs. Esten was actually dying, he would marry her then and there, for the two old friends had made an engagement long ago to be married before death divided them. With the promise of happiness before her, Mrs. Esten grew slowly stronger. Mr. Blood saw that he would not have to marry her after all. He went away. Last week Mrs. Esten again fell critically ill; back came Mr. Blood with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Dec. 21, 1925 | 12/21/1925 | See Source »

Married. Miss Ruth Stagg, daughter of famed and grizzled football coach, A. Alonzo Stagg of the University of Chicago, to one S. Alton Lauren, in Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 2, 1925 | 11/2/1925 | See Source »

...commercial affairs as the world's series or a heavyweight championship bout. And, from the point of view of the one hundred and twenty thousand spectators, this plan would result in some magnificent football. The committee has secured the endorsement of such demigods of the game as Knute Rockne, Alonzo Stagg and Andy Smith. The prestige of these men, aided by that, of the sesquicentennial itself will probably carry the plan through...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A MENACE TO FOOTBALL | 10/7/1925 | See Source »

Richards won from Rene Lacoste, Johnson from Alonzo, Williams from Howard Kinsey. In the semi-final round Tilden, after dropping the first set, paid Vincent Richards the compliment of opposing him with his utmost, with the consequence that Richards steadily lost hope and games, going to pieces in the last set to surrender, 6-8, 6-4, 6-4, 6-1. Johnston devoted 47 minutes to the disposal of Richard Norris Williams 2nd, who as usual could not summon his own brilliance when he needed it most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: National Tennis | 9/28/1925 | See Source »

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