Word: citizenness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is nothing in the 18th Amendment or the Volstead Act to prevent any thirsty U. S. citizen from buying a drink. 'Leggers and speakeasy proprietors are lawbreakers only because they sell liquor and transport it. Their customers may be scofflaws but they are not criminals...
...national air La Brabançonne. Livid with rage, Monsignor Ladeuze had a third set of "stones" hastily moulded from plaster of Paris. With these in place the new Library of Louvain was formally dedicated on July 4, 1928. But soon afterward one Edmond Morren, father of two, citizen of Louvain, climbed upon the roof of the Library just before dawn clutching a stone-mason's pick. When police appeared Citizen Morren pointed proudly to 160 smashed plaster pillars, waved his pick exultantly, shouted: "Long live Belgium! and France! and America! We are not all Boches like Monsignor [expectorating...
...talkie "educator" instead of to a teacher. Mr. Fox also planned to take talkies of famed surgeons at work and to distribute to churches pictures of religious leaders. The latter move Cineman Fox explained "on the theory that every man, woman and child will be a finer citizen if a God-fearing...
Harrah Case. U. S. Citizen Charles J. Harrah built himself a narrow-gauge railroad to haul sand into Havana. In 1917 his tracks were torn up, apparently at the order of one Manuel de La Cruz, member of the Cuban congress. The prosecution quailed before the offender's position as a national legislator. Mr. Harrah valued his road at $700,000, sued also far loss of income. Both Mr. Harrah and the Cuban government have consented to arbitrate this case...
Sirs: . . . Although many citizens disagreed with the beliefs of Mr. Kvale,* all respected his sincerity and admired the man himself. He was more loved and better known by the people of the seventh Minnesota district than any previous representative. Benson, his home town, has a population of less than 2,500, yet more than 5,000 persons attended the funeral of Congressman Kvale. At dawn of the day of his funeral, members of the Benson volunteer fire department washed the newly paved streets of the city and in other ways helped to make the city look its best...