Word: cedars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sued for divorce. Voris ("Jack") Reynolds, wrestling instructor at the University of Indiana, by Mrs. Emma Reynolds, at Cedar Rapids, la. She charged cruelty. Reynolds claims to be world's welterweight wrestling champion...
Next morning the Special arrived at Cedar City and the party took a 130-mile automobile ride through Zion National Park. The roads were bad; the alkali dust and the heat were terrific, and the party on the whole was miserable. The trip was a " press agent" stunt for the park, engineered by Senator Smoot and the Union Pacific Railroad (according to Mr. Kent). According to Mr. Kent, also, Senator Smoot's complacent smile "was well calculated to raise the blood pressure...
...fascinating and inspiring biography, lacking the impersonal and critical faculty that would make it great. He is too near his subject to see him in perspective, too carried away by his personality to judge him as anything but a hero of an "heroic biography". The translation of Eden and Cedar Paul is often annoying with its endless inverted sentences, its florid and over elaborate style, its frequent tendency to melodramatize prose, which must have been stately and flowing in the original. But Roman Rolland is a book to be read, and reread as an engrossing lesson...