Word: coded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cast follows: Baptist Minister, W. D. Dunkel 1G Mob, Thirty persons Helen Neely, Miss Maryalice Secoy Dan, G. H. Code '18 Mr. Jordan, Harold Bates Balley, R. P. Bond 2G. Sorrell, M. T. Herrick 1G. Old Sorrell, E. P. Goodnow '17 Uncle Amos, Stewart Master Rutledge, C. A. Rollins 1G. Lee, H. C. Lodge Jr. '24 Mr. Mclntyre, R. S. Aldrich '25 Johnson, R. T. Bushnell '19 Hutchings, E. P. Goodnow '17 Gov. Carr, L. M. Pearson 2G. Bull, W. E. Stilwell '25 Doggy, P. F. Holmes '24 Mary Todd, Miss Dorothy Googins Mrs. Wheeler, Miss Angela Morris Annie, Miss...
Those playful English collegians, in one of their famous rags, succeeded in convicting Mr. Wells of using too many "dots" in his novels. The penalty, which hardly fitted the enormity of the offense, prescribed the delightful task of transcribing his "Outline of History" from Morse to Semaphore code--or of working it out in "cuneiform, without the assistance of the Moabite stone"--or the hand-writing on the wall...
...revolt against the growing use of the Morse code in literature is not, then, prompted by a feeling that the public is being cheated of worth-while sentiment. The English students objected (if they seriously objected at all) to the sloppy writing which permits a few dots to replace vivid language. Effective as the imagination may be the pantomime of snapping one's fingers can hardly rival a few hearty words in expressing vigorous emotion of any sort...
...person of your excellency, the living embodiment of that moral elevation and love of truth and justice which constitutes the golden code bequeathed by Washington to the depositaries of the power and the glory of the Great American People "? Augustin Edwards, President of the Fifth Pan-American Conference...
Barnum's real business was publicity. His code was: " Just mention my name." He always gave public thanks to " blackmailers " for the notoriety they afforded him. Law suits and newspaper editors were his " go-getters." If he was accused of " faking" live whales out of India rubber, or of labeling a mere man "The Bearded Lady"?that too brought people to his museum...