Word: civility
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...longest in U. S. history, Death came last week to Francis Emroy Warren of Wyoming. Past 85, he resisted but briefly the incursion of bronchial pneu- monia. His son-in-law, General John Joseph Pershing, was at his bedside. He was the Senate's oldest member, its last Civil War veteran. Massachusetts-born, he went west after the Civil War, helped found the city of Cheyenne (1873). He was Wyoming's first Governor (1890). As chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee for twelve years, he helped supervise the expenditure of some 40 billions of public funds...
...Felgenhauer, grain broker, took gas. A Rochester suicide was Robert M. Searle, president of Rochester Gas & Electric Co., who was supposed to have lost $1,200,000 in October. Once before he had lost $1,000,000, had gone to a sanitarium. In Scranton (Pa.), Carl S. Motiska, civil engineer, saturated his clothing with gasoline, lighted it, burned to death. His wife died several hours later from burns she received trying to beat out the flames. To contradict rumors of a suicide wave, New York authorities showed that in Manhattan there were only 44 from...
...International Civil Aeronautics Conference at Washington...
...first five million between 1860-64. Who dared say that lordly persons were above them? There was Senator Zachariah Chandler of Michigan who emphatically admitted that Beadle's Oonomoo the Huron fascinated him. The man who disliked it, opined the Senator, was unfit to live. In the Civil War the same novels did much to incite soldiers on both sides to deeds of astonishing gallantry. There were, indeed, four phases of the dime novel and its follower, the Nickel Library: 1) innocent stories of the American Revolution and early Indian warfare in the East; 2) similar tales...
...poster appeared in Manhattan advertising "colored engravings for the people, published by N. Currier, lithographer:"† He either draughted the designs himself or copied famous paintings, lithographed them in cheap, garish colors, sold them by thousands. During the Civil War, with Collaborator J. M. Ives, Nathaniel Currier made battle scenes, gave them to prize-winning essayists and orators in the grammar schools and as premiums in grocery stores to drum up patriotism. After the war the firm exploited and illustrated early frontier anecdotes, railroad sagas, Mississippi River steamboat races. They flooded the country with pictures of George Washington at home...