Word: considerately
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After hearing the appeal, Sir Thomas Inskip ruled, in effect, that British police shall pounce upon, confiscate and destroy all unsold copies of The Well of Loneliness. Said Sir Thomas, hotly, to reporters: "I consider this the most subtle, demoralizing, corrosive and corruptive book ever written!"
Crossing the channel to Britain, one finds as dean of the distilling peers the venerable Baron Dewar. His whiskeys fire throttles on five continents. About him there is no paradox, no equivocation. To the core of his very liver Lord Dewar is a practicing and preaching wet. He claims that...
But in a day or two Brazilians were clamoring for some gesture from Alberto Santos-Dumont. They wanted the United States of Brazil to thumb its collective nose at the United States of America. Senhor Santos-Dumont satisfied them-by describing an invention, his "Martian transformer," a device with which...
Several hypotheses are being considered to explain the phenomena which may be due to a combination of causes. Theoretically a small tide must take place in the earth's crust as the moon revolves about the earth. But from other considerations it is not thought that this can be sufficiently large to account for the observed effect. Professor Stetson is now considering the possible effect of a tidal wave in the earth's atmosphere caused by the moon which may alter the apparent direction of the ray of light from a star and produce the effect noted. The most direct...
In 1886 a hardware store on Lake Street, Chicago, had for a messenger boy 15-year-old Arthur Cutten. Soon Arthur Cutten, still a messenger boy, was working for a commission house. From messenger boy he became a clerk for A. S. White, onetime president of the Chicago Board of...