Word: civilizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week refused (by a Chicago naturalization board) citizenship on grounds that she was "lacking in nationalistic feeling" and also because she had announced herself as an atheist. Her attorney, William B. Gemmill, said he would appeal to the U. S. District Court. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, the American Civil Liberties Union and other liberals have interested themselves in what threatens to become "the Schwimmer Case...
Lieut. Hegenberger, 31, navigator, was born in Boston. He went from a civil engineering course at Massachusetts Institute of Technology into the Aviation Signal Corps of the Army. He has sons, aged...
...bringing Alma credibly through from naive immigrant to disillusioned but still saintly New England housekeeper, is a remarkable one. Her repeated rejections, by men so various as Niels, a brutish fellow immigrant, and Eric Rasmussen, a now prosperous childhood friend in distant Walla Walla; her capture of a paralytic Civil War veteran; and the one proposal of her lifetime from the genteel but seedy "young master" of her final situation, would be ludicrous, were not Alma's extreme case handled with purpose of extreme purity...
Died. Clara Louise Burnham, 73, author, daughter of Dr. George F. Root, famed composer of many civil war songs including "Just Before the Battle, Mother" in Bailey's Island, Me.; from heart disease...
...with performing an inhuman act you have spoken humane words. I do not wish that blood should be shed by my fault. I do not wish that civil war should break out in our country. "I surrender for the sake of France. I surrender for the memory of my boy, knowing full well that the men who are behind me could create bloodshed and trouble. I do not wish that others should feel the grief I have known. I surrender to the cry of Vive la France." From below M. le Préfet Jean Chiappe cried, "I thank...