Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Civil War. won the first Harper Prize as well as the Pulitzer Prize for 1923. It was Author Wilson's first book. Since then the 54-year-old novelist, once a missionary to India, has written eight other books, married an Englishman, settled in England, switched publishers. This autumn from Doubleday, Doran she will try a literary comeback with a sequel to her first, and still most noteworthy, work...
...city's prostitution was an individualistic enterprise, with a few "bookers" operating small strings of "houses" (apartments). Then various racketeers decided that a handsome profit could be made by assessing each prostitute $10 per week for bail bond, on a guarantee that she would never be jailed. One autumn day Lucania, a gambler and narcotic seller known as "Lucky Luciano" or "Charlie Lucky,"summoned the bondsmen to conference in a Lower East Side restaurant. After a few words with a lieutenant named "Little Davie" Betillo, he turned to the conferees, barked: "You guys are through. I'm giving...
Millions of well-meaning people in Britain are firmly convinced that in demanding Sanctions against Italy last autumn His Majesty's Government was acting from the purest altruism. In last year's "peace ballot" more than 11,000,000 of them voted to support the League up to the hilt. Well aware of these figures, Liberals and Laborites united in heckling the Conservative Government with demands for stiffer Sanctions. Last week Major Clement Richard Attlee, Laborite Leader in Commons, popped off to Paris in an effort to persuade Socialist Leon Blum to come out strongly for a continuation...
...many an hour. When Dr. Eller ceased speaking President Roosevelt warmed him with a smile, told him to turn the $7,000,000 of rich men's promises he had in his briefcase into cash, to start building soon as possible, and to go to Buenos Aires next autumn and tell the whole story to President Roosevelt's forthcoming Pan American Conference...
Chances are that FCC will not force the issue. No action can be taken before next autumn at least, since Baritone Thomas has completed his year's contract with William R. Warner & Co. (Vince Mouthwash), is about to take a vacation. When he appeared on the Golden Rule Mother's Day program in Baltimore last Sunday there was no excuse for him to clash with FCC. Proud Dora Thomas from Towson was present while he sang. When queried about her son John's threat, she said: "I believe he means it. John is a Thomas...