Word: ams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Mayor Smith & henchmen held a rally. Stated Mayor Smith: "I am Wet and do not believe any sane or sensible person believes the Prohibition Law can be enforced in great cities like Detroit, Chicago and New York. . . . The whole thing is the rankest sort of a joke. . . . The...
According to Mr. Samuel, it was all right for U. S. people, with "wealth to burn," to indulge in the "habit," but he "earnestly" hoped that "the honorable gentlemen whom I am now addressing" would see to it that the practice was limited; for, said he, goods so bought "neither...
"I am pained and indignant that it is possible for anyone to spread such idiotic and calumnious tales," said the Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania, scotching a report that Princess Ileana, her youngest daughter, had eloped with a married but fascinatingly handsome naval lieutenant and, balked, had tried to commit...
The undertones of the play are powerful, startling, exquisite. As overwritten by Mr. Milne, overacted by Henry Hull, overproduced, it becomes a despair to the intelligent, most of whom honor Mr. Milne at his best;* and Henry Hull likewise (Lulu Belle). Mr. Hull mincing with earnestness, gurgles: "I am only...
"There is not one here that I shall not always bear in my heart with affection and loyal gratitude. I am not worthy of all the good things that have been said about me, and I am not worthy of this gift-this timely gift, I might say, It is...