Word: awaye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge used to rise and bid his callers good-night before the clock had ceased chiming 10 p. m. Last week President Hoover, host to four New York Republican leaders, kept them smoking and talking in the study until 11.10 p. m., when they went away in sweet harmony...
...Cosmopolitan Book Co.; Arthur S. Draper, an editor of the New York Herald Tribune. Reporters were held at arm's length by a hotel detective. Good Friend Frank Waterman Stearns was present as a smiling but non-communicative buffer. One man. seeking an audience but turned away, sent up by a waiter to the Coolidge suite a silver salt shaker but no explanation. Mr. Coolidge was puzzled...
Michigan last week shuffled its criminal code and gave 'leggers a new deal. The State repealed its "life-for-a-pint" law which sent fourth-offending liquor dispensers away for all time. From Michigan's habitual criminal act were excepted 120 minor felonies, including the wearing of a lodge pin without authority. As a compensation to the Anti-Saloon League, the State Legislature decreed that every prohibition violator must go to jail for from 50 days to four years, and pay a fine...
...York, N. Y., March 29--While Yale, Army, and Navy ran away with the honors, Harvard was hopelessly outclassed in the final matches of the Intercollegiate Fencing Tournament, completed here late tonight...
...magnets are made; and insulating materials such as rubber paper, cotton, oils, porcelain, and other similar materials which have the property of insulating the electric circuit. It is only by employing insulating materials that electric currents can be made to flow in the electric conductors. Otherwise, they would leak away, and it would therefore be difficult to transmit power any considerable distance...