Word: come
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...answer a question that has perplexed me for some time. Unless my memory has failed me, it is ten or fifteen years since the Rev. William ("Billy") Sunday, the famous evangelist, has been in New York. Now I think this would be a fine time for him to come to New York, because of the prohibition raids on "night clubs" and the presidential campaign. Can it be that he is afraid to come to New York, as I have heard? I do not like to think that "Billy" Sunday would be afraid to meet the devil in his stamping-ground...
Exile Blackmer's distaste for publicity was sharpened by an embarrassingly melodramatic account of his case which was published by La Presse (Paris mob journal). The details given by La Presse were such that they seemed to have come from Exile Blackmer himself. La Presse said that when Blackmer's passport was taken from him last year on a train between Nice and Marseilles, the U.S. consular agent who obtained the passport did so by the trick of impersonating a French police official. La Presse said that the agent slipped the passport out the train window...
...Some immediate relief would come from an amendment to the Volstead Law giving a scientific definition of the alcoholic content of an intoxicating beverage. . . . Each State would then be allowed to fix its own standard of alcoholic content, subject always to the proviso that that standard could not exceed the maximum fixed by the Congress...
...duties in Spain are so arduous that he may never come to America, so he is sending me instead, to 'show his interest in America, because I am his namesake. . . . This year and next there will be great expositions at Seville and Barcelona, so there has now been established the Patronato Regio del Turismo (Royal Tourist Board) composed of many important Spanish personages...
Asphyxiation: Rapid, because vertical position of submarine caused acid to spill from storage batteries and to come into contact with the salt water, generating deadly gas impossible to counteract with fresh air from hose...