Word: clevelands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years old when the Armistice was signed. Ace Ingalls went back to college with his decorations in his pocket and applied himself to the harder heroics of graduating and getting a law degree. Then he married, was twice a father, practiced law quietly in his native Cleveland, entered the Ohio legislature. Rich, he never returned to France; but proceeded, by interesting himself in all manner of local business and civic enterprises, to make Cleveland his world. Like many another War flier, he flew no more, though instinct obliged him to drive his automobile at unearthly speeds...
...Safety Director Edwin D. Barry of Cleveland protested that these figures were seven years old; that Cleveland's police are now intelligent...
Claude H. Foster of Cleveland, inventory promoter, manufacturer, called his new automobile horn in 1904 after the name of that golden trumpet by which the archangel will at some unknown date announce the dissolution of all things-Gabriel's horn. Gabriel Manufacturing Co. prospered, expanded, invented a snubber to tame the jouncings of springs on automobiles. Gabriel snubbers rivalled Gabriel's horn in fame. Since 1925 when Gabriel Manufacturing was listed on the New York Stock Exchange "Snubber" has been cried in stock brokers' customers' rooms, when the ticker recorded a transaction in Gabriel stock...
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...alter all the plays of Shakespeare, to make the lines and the costumes up-to-date, it can't be done. We tried it with Hamlet for four nights when we played in Cleveland, but we found that nothing was gained and much lost. In every work, Shake speare has created a background and an environment which, if taken away, destroys the greatness of the play. For instance. 'Romeo and Juliet' requires the romance-breathing Italian atmosphere, while the more blatant, boisterous plays would not be out of place in any country but England. This we found...