Word: burnses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The Senate investigations still plow onward, but as days go by seem to turn up less and less dirt. The one concrete result last week was really a corollary of an earlier event. William J. Burns, Director of the Bureau of Investigation, resigned and his resignation was accepted. Burns had...
One is tempted, of course, to remember Hawthorne's creative genius smothered in a custom house or of Burns ganging ale in Dumiries; but that would be a pitiful exhibition of mid-Victorianism. And just a pitiful would be the counter suggestion that the fault of the grammar schools lies...
So he falls a prey to the viperous, beguiling wife of a friend, who makes rendezvous with him in a questionable hotel, then entwines him in snake-like arms. But he wrenches himself loose before the lights go out. After he flees, shaken in everything but his honor, the hotel...
Last week, Dr. Eliot and Dr. Lawrence (Bishop of Massachusetts), were the principal speakers at Old South Church, celebrating the 40 years' ministry of Rev. George A. Gordon. Said Dr. Lawrence: "As we hear his ringing voice and listen to his dignity of language, in the description of the...
Robert Burns in the background. (P. 18.)