Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Munsey forbade smoking in all his newspaper offices. Reporters would have preferred to be denied almost any other implement of their craft, but he paid them well and they were content to bribe elevator boys to warn them of the Big Chief's approach. Occasionally, however, when they were forced to lavatories for their smoke, they would refer unpleasantly to the Mohican Chain Stores, and among younger men the impression got about that Frank A. Munsey was the world's greatest grocery man, and a newspaper man only by grace of tin cans. Had they never heard the big story...
...everyone knows that the Vatican is somewhat resigned to the confiscation of the Papal States by Italy; would be content if Italy would allot in fee simple, free from secular suzerainty, a narrow strip of land from Rome to the Tiber estuary, so that the Pope could have his own seaport, could travel abroad without touching Italian soil...
...readings will be made from the King James version of the Bible. Professor Copeland has not yet announced the exact passages for his reading. He will introduce his reading by a talk on the nature and content of these passages...
...gone to work with W.C. Fields, Carol Dempster and a lot of wind machines. It may be even possible that the wind machines were borrowed from other sets, because it seems impossible that a normal supply could create such a fiendish storm. Mr. Griffith doesn't content himself with a mere cyclone; he has to have three or four tornadoes going on at the same time. Of course when you have over half the cast to kill off at the end you might just as well blow them to pieces as drown them or burn them. We're beginning...
...moment that he might get away, might do the thing that was half-expected of him and end his 20th game with a touchdown. But a covey of runners brushed down on him, bore him out of bounds before he had run 43 yards. The 85,000 went home, content. They had seen what they came for. They had seen, also, Marek (Ohio State) break lose from one tackier, jump another, cross Grange's goal line. Score: Illinois 14, Ohio State 9. All autumn the skilful toe of Benny Friedman and the oaken-bound bucket-ribs of "Bull" Molenda...