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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mexico, the expectation was that Governor Dillon would not avail himself of his partisan opportunity, but would call a special election, that having been the course followed when Senator Albert Bacon Fall was called to be President Harding's Secretary of the Interior...
...doubtful. He was after all, no more responsible for its enactment than many millions who had voted for it, and much less responsible that those who had led in the agitation; and, in proposing the measure, he was only echoing the sentiments of his constituents. These considerations, however, avail nothing with those who, having found liquor in the Mecca of the dry, feel that to telephone Mr. Volstead would be the cream of the jest. He must by now have tested the meaning of the poet who mentioned the repose of those who sink to rest by all their country...
...steeped in Kiplingisms, unjustifiably muttered uncomplimentary things and turned up its collective nose at what Dr. Bridges did give it. The matter became serious; the murmuring grew to open and vociferous criticism. The public grievance was even aired in Parliament. But all this fuss and pother was to no avail. When the "old man" on Boar's Hill heard about it, he said unpoetically: "I don't give a damn!" When the public heard that, it rather liked it. and settled down to like Dr. Bridges, just as it had settled down to like Queen Victoria after decades...
...three months. He transmits all night and goes to sleep at 6 a.m. and sleeps until 4 p.m." Eric H. Palmer Jr. had been dropped from two schools, grown sickly. Eric H. Palmer has forbidden his son to operate his transmitting set; had even crippled the set - to no avail. Eric H. Palmer Jr. continued to tinker and pine. Eric H. Palmer had to ask the Federal Radio Commission to suspend Eric H. Palmer Jr.'s operating license for 90 days...
...game prognostications avail anything, today's match should prove to be a close event, for Amherse defeated both Dartmouth and Harvard by the same score, 3-1. While Dartmouth was playing the Cadets, the University soccer squad has wasted no time, having been well drilled in the fundamentals of the game...