Word: awaye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...orders which has yet to burst. Then, getting back to England, he outlined a ?42,000,000 ($204,120,000) program of unemployment relief. Straightway this was denounced by Liberal Leader David Lloyd George as "unintelligent, pusillanimous, and ineffective!" At Privy Seal Jim the Welshman jibed, "You-ran away to Canada when you should have been here working out a real solution. I am surprised that the Prime Minister...
...navy will respect the right of U. S. merchantmen to freedom of the seas. Since there has been general uneasiness in Britain on the latter point, Mr. MacDonald's straightforward answer cleared the air, enhanced his popularity, banished suspicion that he is an impractical Socialist capable of bartering away Britannia's right to rule the wave...
...Will you pay it?" queried prying Manhattan reporters of Brother Herman Brenner, head of the fur firm. "If Aaron has really been kidnaped," said Herman, "we'll do everything to get his release. I think it more likely though that he has just gone away on a party...
...Hebrew descent, he joined the Episcopal church to sing in the choir next to a girl he liked. He was discharged from Henry Goldsmith's music store in Columbus because whenever he tried out a clarinet for a customer people thought he had gone crazy. He kept running away from store jobs to work in bands but was usually sent home because he could not play in time. After he left Fuller's band he made a hit. Lewis enlarged his stage until it included the whole continent. Although he preceded in popularity such current figures as Paul...
...Cutten, wife of the famed bull-market operator, and Mrs. Al fred T. Martin, wife of the vice president of Bartlett, Frazier & Co. (grain & stocks), returning in Mrs. Cutten's car from a Chicago theatre, were stopped by five men who growled, "Police officers!" The Cutten chauffeur was marched away up the street. The ladies were then told: "This is a holdup. No screams or we'll shoot your hands off." The loot: $500 worth of jewelry (mostly imitation...